Nvidia Billionaire Mark Stevens Gives $200 Million to Alma Mater USC for AI Research
Nvidia Corp. signage in San Jose, California.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergBillionaire Nvidia Corp. director Mark Stevens and his wife Mary are gifting $200 million to the University of Southern California to advance AI research and education across the school.
The donation will help make USC a “national leader in AI-powered research and creativity,” the school said in a statement, adding the university’s school of advanced computing will also be renamed after the couple. USC has plans to introduce a new degree in Artificial Intelligence for Business this fall.