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The Postsecondary AI Observatory

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Answers to questions you put in below come only from the verified public sources and records that make up our research on student success, AI, philanthropy, and where those three meet. Every answer cites its sources and tells you how to reach them through external links. When we do not know the answer, we say so and suggest where to look next.

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Coverage

What we cover

Each tile says what it counts and where the count comes from. Dollar figures are minimums: they add up only what has been published, and most funders publish nothing. Treat them as the lowest the true number could be, never as a total for the field.

Alignment

Eight things that help students finish, and how much AI money is behind each

Each row is a practice or goal with real evidence behind it. The second column shows the AI money actually moving there. The third shows other money already in the same area (state programs, federal grants, institutional purchases) that is not connected to any AI work. Click a row for the records and sources behind it.

Practice or goalAI money behind itOther money in the same areaWhere it stands

The picture

Where the field stands

Who pays

Funders, companies and public sources of money