The University of Sydney is buying ChatGPT for its whole campus.
The university will give all students and staff free ChatGPT Edu accounts in a staged rollout. The multi-year deal bars OpenAI from training its models on university data. Sydney is also putting a million dollars into a fund for AI sustainability research.
Why it mattersWhole universities now buy AI the way they buy email. If your school follows, that contract decides who sees your work.
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