UTech AI News

Google Gemini AI Expands Capabilities with New Thinking and Deep Research Models

Google has recently announced the addition of two new models to its Gemini AI platform: 2.5 Pro (experimental) and Deep Research with 2.5 Pro. These models represent significant advancements in AI's ability to reason and conduct in-depth research.

New Agent Added to ϳԹ AI

An exciting new agent using some of the most capable AI models currently available has been added to ϳԹ AI. The new general purpose, large models (similar to ChatGPT 4o) Mistral Large is available. Other new additions to ϳԹ AI are agents tailored to specific tasks.

Explore the new ϳԹ AI Playground resource for faculty and staff

Are you ready to dive deeper into the world of artificial intelligence (AI)?

Students can enroll in a training module to explore generative AI

Do you want to explore the world of generative AI and enhance your academic journey?

[U]Tech announces availability of NotebookLM

[U]Tech has announced that NotebookLM, a new artificial intelligence-powered note-taking tool from Google, is now available to all students, faculty and staff.

What’s New with ϳԹ AI - November/December, 2024

Version 2.0 of ϳԹ AI launched in early December, bringing several new, exciting features to the platform. First, the default chatbot of ϳԹ AI, GPT 4o, now can enhance its answers with web searches in addition to the knowledge of the model itself.

What’s New with ϳԹ AI - October, 2024

The newest feature in ϳԹ AI is the Regenerate chat feature.

University launches ϳԹ AI portal

[U]Tech has partnered with Microsoft and Cloudforce to launch , an internal, secure, general purpose artificial intelligence (AI) portal for the ϳԹ community.

Prompt Power—Mastering the Skill of AI Questioning

Faculty and staff members at ϳԹ are invited to join University Technology and partners Cloudforce and Microsoft for “Prompt Power—Mastering the Skill of AI Questioning” Wednesday, Oct.

What’s New with ϳԹ AI - September, 2024

A set of new features landed this week on the University’s internal AI portal, ϳԹ AI (). Here are the list of feature enhancements:

Pilot of Spartan Answers chatbot goes live on My ϳԹ

ϳԹ’s commitment to enhancing student services continues to grow with the launch of Spartan Answers, a new chatbot being piloted on .

Find out how AI can be used in education

[U]Tech's Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) launched a new Canvas course for faculty and staff members titled “Getting Started with Generative AI in Education.” Thi

Google's Gemini Now Available to the ϳԹ Community

Google’s AI chatbot, Gemini, is now available to members of the ϳԹ community at . Use Gemini to get help with writing, brainstorming, learning, and more.

Google Colab Pro and Pro+ Now Available for Purchase from CDWG

ϳԹ faculty and staff are now able to purchase Google Colab Pro and Pro+ at a discount from CDWG.

Microsoft Clipchamp Now Available

Microsoft has made a new web application called Clipchamp available to the ϳԹ community. Clipchamp is an easy to use video editing software with AI capabilities.

UTech Launches Production AI Portal

UTech has launched a production version of a general purpose, internal use only AI portal. The portal is available at and replaces the previous beta portal.

New Chatbot to Launch on My ϳԹ This Fall; Site Editors Asked to Update Content

A new chatbot tool called Spartan Answers will be implemented on this fall.

Translated Captions Now Available in Zoom

The University has upgraded to a new version of Zoom called “Zoom Workplace” with enhanced AI features. One new feature available to all faculty, staff and students is translated live captions.