The project’s leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry.

Harvard got financial backing from tech giants According to a TechCrunch article, the initiative is spearheaded by the Harvard’s Institutional Data Initiative (IDI). This initiative contains ...

Under the newly formed Institutional Data Initiative, the project has received funding from both Microsoft and OpenAI, and contains books scanned by Google Books that are old enough that their ...

This is set to be part of the Institutional Data Initiative (IDI), a program hosted within the Harvard Law School Library to “expand and enhance the data resources available for AI training.” ...

Microsoft is working alongside nonprofits, universities, governments and other technology companies as part of the Harvard ...

Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab lets everyone use 1 million books for AI training under its Institutional Data Initiative (IDI). The educational institution explains it will allow the world to ...