SANTA CLARA — California is partnering with NVIDIA on a new initiative to collaborate on cutting-edge AI efforts and provide our students, educators, and workers with unprecedented access to this transformative technology.

The initiative, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom and NVIDIA founder & CEO Jensen Huang, aims to train students, educators and workers, support job creation and promote innovation, and use AI to solve challenges that can improve the lives of Californians.

Among other goals, it strives to bring new AI resources into community colleges from NVIDIA – including curriculum and certifications, hardware and software, AI labs and workshops, and more – to open new pathways for students, educators and workers to learn new skills and advance their careers.

“California’s world-leading companies are pioneering AI breakthroughs, and it’s essential that we create more opportunities for Californians to get the skills to utilize this technology and advance their careers. We’re teaming up with NVIDIA to connect AI tools directly to students, educators, and workers – creating a pipeline to drive the innovations of the future,” said Governor Gavin Newsom.

This initiative builds off of Governor Newsom’s executive order, which called for the state to utilize AI to best serve Californians. Just this year, the state unveiled a state worker training program, held a GenAI summit, issued a GenAI toolkit for state procurement, launched pilot projects to explore how GenAI could help address challenges like traffic congestion and language accessibility, and more.

Following today’s announcement, California is issuing a call to action encouraging other AI and tech stakeholders to join future partnerships to ensure California continues to be a global leader in education, innovation, research, and preparing the workforce of the future and today. California’s world-class University of California and California State University systems will also partner with the state on these efforts in the future.