Texas AI Docket

National Science Foundation funds Sagebrush, an AI inference platform for researchers nationwide, hosted at UT Austin's supercomputing center

Research and scienceU.S. National Science FoundationTravisWrite to the decider

The National Science Foundation made a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin under its National AI Research Resource program. It pays for Sagebrush, a platform that runs large AI models for researchers on SambaNova processors rather than on GPUs. It is hosted at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and is meant for researchers across the country, reached through Jupyter notebooks and chatbot interfaces. The award record dates the award to July 20th, 2026 and gives September 15th, 2026 as the start of the work. It runs to August 31st, 2028. The abstract names no Texas project it will serve and no results yet.

How to take part

The award record is public at the National Science Foundation and names the principal investigator at UT Austin and the program officer at NSF.

Where to do it

Where

1 county. In Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos.

Timeline

  1. decided

    Award date on the NSF award record

  2. effective

    Start date on the NSF award record

  3. Today

How this decision moved

One dated line per check, oldest first. A line that says nothing changed means somebody looked and it had not.

  1. 2026-10-03

    Admitted on the foundation's own award record. The platform's work began on September 15th and nothing it has produced is on the record yet.

  2. 2026-10-06

    The foundation's award for Sagebrush, the AI inference platform, still stands as announced.

  3. 2026-10-09

    Checked and unchanged. The decision still stands as decided.

The evidence

Every fact above rests on one of these. The words are the source's own.

Category II: Sagebrush - An AI Inference Resource for ACCESS, NAIRR, and the Nation
NSF Award 2537075, National Science Foundation award record Primary source, official · api.nsf.gov
Sagebrush is a transformative generative artificial intelligence (AI) inference platform, designed to accelerate scientific discovery by providing researchers with a powerful tool for AI-driven discovery.
NSF Award 2537075, National Science Foundation award record Primary source, official · api.nsf.gov
Sagebrush addresses these challenges by leveraging cutting-edge SambaNova AI processors
NSF Award 2537075, National Science Foundation award record Primary source, official · api.nsf.gov
Hosted at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
NSF Award 2537075, National Science Foundation award record Primary source, official · api.nsf.gov
By offering user-friendly tools like Jupyter notebooks and web-based chatbot interfaces, the platform lowers technical barriers
NSF Award 2537075, National Science Foundation award record Primary source, official · api.nsf.gov
NAIRR-Nat AI Research Resource
NSF Award 2537075, National Science Foundation award record Primary source, official · api.nsf.gov
"transType":"Cooperative Agreement"
NSF Award 2537075, National Science Foundation award record Primary source, official · api.nsf.gov
"date":"07/20/2026"
NSF Award 2537075, National Science Foundation award record Primary source, official · api.nsf.gov
"startDate":"09/15/2026"
NSF Award 2537075, National Science Foundation award record Primary source, official · api.nsf.gov
"expDate":"08/31/2028"
NSF Award 2537075, National Science Foundation award record Primary source, official · api.nsf.gov
"awardeeName":"University of Texas at Austin"
NSF Award 2537075, National Science Foundation award record Primary source, official · api.nsf.gov

Questions about this decision

Answered from the record itself. Every answer is assembled from stored fields, so an answer the record has no basis for is left out rather than guessed.

What is this decision?

The National Science Foundation made a cooperative agreement with the University of Texas at Austin under its National AI Research Resource program. It pays for Sagebrush, a platform that runs large AI models for researchers on SambaNova processors rather than on GPUs. It is hosted at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and is meant for researchers across the country, reached through Jupyter notebooks and chatbot interfaces. The award record dates the award to July 20th, 2026 and gives September 15th, 2026 as the start of the work. It runs to August 31st, 2028. The abstract names no Texas project it will serve and no results yet.

Who decides it?

U.S. National Science Foundation decides. The record names the deciding body for every entry it carries.

Can the public take part?

The award record is public at the National Science Foundation and names the principal investigator at UT Austin and the program officer at NSF. No dated public window is on the record. The deciding body is named and reachable.

Where in Texas does it apply?

It covers Travis County.

Has it been decided?

It has been decided. The dates on the item page carry when.

What happens next?

No future date is on the record. The last dated step on it was effective on September 15th.

When did it start?

The earliest date on its record is July 20th, 2026.

What kind of decision is it?

It is filed under research and science.

What sources back it?

One source backs it. It is primary.

Is it on the ERCOT grid?

Yes. It sits inside the ERCOT interconnection.

When was it last checked?

Every fact on it was last verified against its source on October 9th, 2026.

Cite this

Texas AI Docket, National Science Foundation funds Sagebrush, an AI inference platform for researchers nationwide, hosted at UT Austin's supercomputing center. Tracked since July 20th, 2026. Last verified October 9th, 2026. https://texasaidocket.com/item/tx-2026-0199/. Reuse permitted under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. The same entry is in the docket JSON as item tx-2026-0199.

Beat

Filed under Research and science, with every other decision on that beat.

Last checked 2026-10-09