Amazon is expanding its Alexa fellowship programs to a total of 18 universities to help develop Alexa's voice recognition technology, according to Fortune.
The 18 universities are divided between the Alexa Graduate Fellowship, which funds PhD and postdoctoral research into conversational AI technology, and the Alexa Innovation Fellowship, which enables student entrepreneurs to improve their products with AI technology.
Universities granted 2018-2019 fellowships include Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins University, Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University, University of Cambridge in England and the University of California at Berkeley.