University of Massachusetts Amherst: UMass Amherst built its own secure AI platform where students, faculty, and staff can generate images using generative AI. Launched in September 2025, the platform runs inside the university's own computing environment so that user data stays private and is never used to train any AI model. | AI Trace
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UMass Amherst built its own secure AI platform where students, faculty, and staff can generate images using generative AI. Launched in September 2025, the platform runs inside the university's own computing environment so that user data stays private and is never used to train any AI model.
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The platform is built on the open-source LibreChat framework and integrates DALL-E as an image generation plugin alongside tools for web search, document analysis, and math computation. It was developed by UMass IT and the Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. The university is now open-sourcing the platform as "campusGenAI" for adoption by other institutions. User data is stored within UMass's secure AWS infrastructure and is approved for Level 3 (non-public) institutional data.
