Generative AI Center

Website https://genai.ucsc.edu/

Generative AI demands a multidisciplinary focus. As AI rapidly grows across industries, this emerging field necessitates novel frameworks, applications, and ethical guidelines for implementation and utilization. The establishment of the Generative AI Center at UC Santa Cruz aims to address these challenges by creating a collaborative hub for exploring, understanding, and shaping this evolving field. We are committed to advancing AI through bold and socially responsible innovation.

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  • How to Validate AI Product Ideas and Build a Defensible MVP

    Social Sciences 1 Social Sciences 1, Santa Cruz, CA

    93% of US companies plan to increase their AI investments; but 80% of AI projects fail. Countless “cool” demos crash and burn; not because the technology failed, but because they solved the wrong problem. In this lesson, we lay out a proven playbook with 5 tactical steps, each a mindset shift or critical decision point, […]

    Free
  • SF Tech Week

    AI Frontier: Data, Agents & Robots at TechWeek SF

    Join us for an immersive SF Tech Week experience hosted by the Silicon Valley AI Pioneer Club and UC Santa Cruz GenAI Center — where AI builders, investors, innovators and top researchers converge to explore the technologies shaping tomorrow. Details and reservations are available at https://partiful.com/e/OtqKL1z4hvYDLMk0uP8w

    free

  • Bi-weekly GenAI Meetup at UC Santa Cruz

    Bi-weekly GenAI Meetup at UC Santa Cruz

    We are excited to invite you to the second session of the GenAI Meetup at UC Santa Cruz, which will be held on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at 3:15 PM in E2-506. This session will feature a student talk and demo by Akhilesh Thite, a Master’s student, on local LLMs in the PeerSky Browser. To describe the session in the […]

    Free