The University of Texas at Dallas
TX · AI Readiness #178 of 227
AIREDEX™ Score: 5.5 /10
A university-built generative AI platform, CometAI, anchors UT Dallas's AI skills program, paired with a STEM-designated undergraduate degree in Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence that gives Comets hands-on AI access from day one.
UT Dallas rounds that out with campus-wide AI skills events like the annual Week of AI and the AWS AI Practitioner certification series, open to every student. A December 2025 MOU with Tech Mahindra created a structured AI internship pipeline, and the Juno HPC cluster, with 52 NVIDIA H200 GPUs, gives student researchers serious compute access alongside Microsoft Copilot for everyday coursework.
Pillar grades
- Commitment: D+
- Curriculum: C+
- Partnerships: C+
- Research: B+
A(I)ttitude™: cautious
Selected Highlights
- UTDSP5017 (Generative AI Use in Academic Work) is a formal university-wide policy with stated goals, governance commitments, and ethical guidelines; supplemented by ISO AI Usage Guidelines and Roadmap 2030 AI priorities.
- TAIRI (Texas Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, 2025) is confirmed as a cross-disciplinary AI institute with a 5-cluster research roadmap; CAIML and CAIQUE are additional named AI centers.
- CometAI is a university-built generative AI platform supporting 25+ models, HIPAA/FERPA-compliant, now at version 3.0 with API access, SharePoint integration, and live web search -- a genuine institutional build, not a licensed tool.
- AI skills programming includes Week of AI (annual, inaugural 2025), AWS AI Practitioner certification series (open to all students, Spring 2026), Prompt Point webinar series, and a self-paced ai.utdallas.edu portal.
- Juno HPC cluster expanded March 2026 with 52 NVIDIA H200 GPUs ($2.2M investment); Ganymede 2 condo cluster adds 115 GPUs; TACC Lonestar6 accessible to UT System researchers.