Nvidia Billionaire Stevens Gives USC $200 Million for AI (1)

Billionaire 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.

For Stevens, the world of AI more than any other tech era feels like “you’re either quick or you’re dead,” he ...