The University of Texas at Austin has been selected to lead the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins, a new $20 million research initiative focused on using AI to explore the universe’s biggest mysteries, from dark matter to the origins of life. Greg Durrett, Associate Professor of Computer Science at UT, is a co-investigator on this groundbreaking project, further cementing UT’s leadership in AI research. With the addition of CosmicAI, UT joins an elite group of institutions with multiple National AI Research Institutes, including the AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning (IFML).