During his last official announcement in office, Governor Murphy propelled his plans for making New Jersey an AI and innovation hub, signing a Memorandum of Understanding with tech giant NVIDIA focused on advancing generative artificial intelligence.

The agreement unites the state's public sector with flagship universities like Rutgers and NJIT and NVIDIA to shape the future of AI.

It's one of Murphy's administration's highest priorities has been reviving the state's reputation as the global home here of innovation.

Now, this initiative follows other recent efforts in the state, like establishing a permanent New Jersey innovation authority to oversee digital and AI projects.

And it dedicates $25 million through the Economic Development Authority to build supercomputers at those universities.

Governor Murphy argues it'll give students, researchers, and entrepreneurs state-of-the-art resources to explore AI.

That's something incoming Governor Mikie Sherrill supports and plans to continue through her administration.

It will create a statewide framework for bringing together our government, research universities, our community colleges, the New Jersey AI Hub, and of course, NVIDIA.

And together, we're going to advance AI education, workforce development, research, and innovation at scale.

So we can prepare New Jersey students, innovators, and workers to shape the future of AI and not get run over by it.