A CAIL Fellow spends three months load-testing open-weight models in the CAIL Sandbox, tries to build a citation tool inside the chat, and finds out what it takes to get it working.

The CUNY AI Lab is seeking graduate student Fellows for the 2026-2027 academic year. Applications are due September 22, 2026.

Why the CUNY AI Lab runs nearly all of its tools on open-weight models — what open weights are, what frontier models cost to run, and how open models have closed the capability gap.

A CAIL workshop participant vibe-codes a tool that gives composition students real-time feedback on whether their paragraphs genuinely 'think with' a text — and reflects on what that means for the val...

A CAIL Fellow reflects on building a personal Pomodoro timer through AI-assisted prototyping in the Spring 2026 workshop series — and on the ambivalence of doing so.

CUNY-built AI infrastructure for teaching, learning, and research in public higher education, developed at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Why the CUNY AI Lab is starting a blog, and what to expect from posts here.

by Zach Muhlbauer During a summer composition course, a LaGuardia student learns their work has come under suspicion that it was written by AI. The instructor claims the student’s spoken and writte…