AI at TCU

Cover of the Fall 1976 TCU magazine, featuring a purple-and-white illustration of scientists working with laboratory equipment and books. The cover text reads, “This Is TCU: The Magazine of Texas Christian University, Fall 1976,” with the headline, “The TCU Research Foundation: 14 Years of Progress.”

Fall 2026

How a 1976 TCU Learning Study and Early AI Research Began With the Same Question

Fifty years after the same agency funded a TCU learning study and early work on AI, the two have met in the classroom.

Bingyang Wei, in glasses and a dark blazer, points up at a projection screen while speaking. The slide, titled ‘Chaining them up (one training example),’ shows a neural network diagram with four layers of equations in purple and red boxes connected by arrows.

Fall 2026

Inside TCU’s AI Infrastructure and Its R1 Push

With the powerful new AI² system, TCU invests in the infrastructure to meet its ambitious research goals.

Diarra Niang and Happy Herman stand together in a server room, looking at a monitor as Herman points toward the screen. Racks of networking equipment and cabling line the aisle behind them, lit in blue.

Fall 2026

How TCU Is Teaching Students to Work Alongside AI

Faculty are emphasizing AI literacy and critical evaluation skills as employers increasingly expect graduates to be fluent in AI tools.

Endeavors 2026

How AI Deepfakes and Bias Threaten Elections, Health Care and Public Trust

TCU researchers expose how AI deepfakes spread political misinformation, worsen medical disparities and erode confidence in institutions.

Endeavors 2026

AI² CENTER AT TCU

The university has built AI infrastructure the way it once built libraries — as a foundation for the next century of research.

Xiaolu Zhou views a colorful data visualization map on his computer monitor at his desk in his TCU office.

Endeavors 2026

Xiaolu Zhou is working to bring TCU classrooms into the future through innovative AI tools like the AI Globe and by helping professors across disciplines harness artificial intelligence’s teaching potential.

AI at TCU

How a 1976 TCU Learning Study and Early AI Research Began With the Same Question

Inside TCU’s AI Infrastructure and Its R1 Push

How TCU Is Teaching Students to Work Alongside AI

How AI Deepfakes and Bias Threaten Elections, Health Care and Public Trust

AI² CENTER AT TCU

AI in Academia