aiqbench analysis
New York's $10 million AI Jobs Institute is a public-private workforce program that aims to train up to 40,000 people for AI-related roles by 2032, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google supplying credits and certificates. Its real test is placement: the program has trained about 500 people so far, and its outcomes will show whether AI upskilling translates into durable jobs. Readers should also note that much of the metro's tech hiring growth came from financial firms, and the Bay Area still employs more AI specialists.
No city employs more tech workers than New York. Now it’s spending $10 million to train 40,000 people for AI jobs
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are supplying credits and certificates to a Queens nonprofit that has trained about 500 people in AI so far.
New York has more tech workers than any other metro area in North America. And now, it’ll have a new training hub in Queens, as the city and state invest $10 million to bring tens of thousands of lower-income New Yorkers into the AI workforce. Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday announced the AI Jobs Institute, a Long Island City hub that the nonprofit Pursuit will design and run. It aims to train up to 40,000 New Yorkers for AI-related jobs by 2032, link them to employers and produce…
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