AI Incubator
Student-Powered
AI Service Platform
Companies share real world challenges and
students solve them.
AI
INCUBATOR
Student-Powered AI Service Platform
world challenges
and students solve them.
PILOT:
Marketplace for AI Projects
Jean Park, former iMasons Capstone Scholarship Awardee and NYU student focused on AI development, has accepted to lead the effort for an NYU AI Incubator cluster hosted in the heart of Manhattan at Hudson IX.
NYU Student Ambassador & team could assist in the development of the iMasons AI Incubator Marketplace through the Onue Cloud platform.
NYU Student Ambassador & team could assist in the development of the iMasons AI Incubator Marketplace through the Onue Cloud platform.Â
COMPANY SPONSORS
Enhance your AI strategy
- Access to a global pool of skilled student talent
- Solve your company’s real world challenges
- A private, dedicated AI platform
- Organic pathway to recruitment of new talent
- Elevating your brand to the level of AI
- Increase brand awareness with students and schools
UNIVERSITIES
Students move at the speed of AI
- Student Success. Increase your most important metrics.Â
- Student Engagement. Real world projects build indemand skills.
- Brand. Increased visibility of student driven success.Â
- Industry Engagement. AI advances led by students.
- Increase Funding & Resources. Student access free AI tools and capacity
- Expand corporate partnerships through marketplace projects
STUDENTS
Prove skills and kickstart your career
- Real projects with real data from real companies
- Free AI tools and dedicated compute capacity
- Establish meaningful connections with leading
companies and enhance your network - Elevate your visibility and personal profile with
referencable projects for your resume - Accelerate the pathway to get hired and have a
meaningful career
SPONSOR RATE SHEET
Annual sponsorships give students acccess to cloud capacity, AI tools, GPU hours and company projects to gain real world experience.
STUDENT
Individual
TEAM
16 Students
STUDENT BENEFITS
MLOps Tools
Hot Storage (GB/mo)
Warm Storage (GB/mo)
Run Hours (Monthly)
Network Transfer (TB/mo)
Included
15GB
250GB
500 Hours
10TB
Included
150GB
2,500GB
5,000 Hours
1,000TB
PROJECTS
Students Work Hours
Per Project
Hours/Month
ANNUAL SPONSOR COST
Public Cloud Equivalent
$5,000
$16,883
$150,000
$2,120,400
SAVINGS
70%
93%
COMPANY
SPONSORS
Enhance your
AI strategy
- Access to a global pool of skilled student talent
- Solve your company’s real world challenges
- A private, dedicated AI platform
- Organic pathway to recruitment of new talent
- Elevating your brand to the level of AI
- Increase brand awareness with students and schools
UNIVERSITIES
Students move at
the speed of AI
- Student Success. Increase your most important metrics.Â
- Student Engagement. Real world projects build indemand skills.
- Brand. Increased visibility of student driven success.Â
- Industry Engagement.. AI advances led by students.
- Increase Funding & Resources. Student access free AI tools and capacity
- Expand corporate partnerships through marketplace projects
STUDENTS
Prove skills and
kickstart your carrer
- Real projects with real data from real companies
- Free AI tools and dedicated compute capacity
- Establish meaningful connections with leading companies and enhance your network
- Elevate your visibility and personal profile with referencable projects for your resume
- Accelerate the pathway to get hired and have a meaningful career
Please fill out the interest form
to receive information
on the iMasons AI Incubator
AI Incubator Interest Form
AI Incubator
PILOT PROGRAM
Jean Park, former iMasons Capstone
Scholarship Awardee and NYU student
focused on AI development, has
accepted to lead the effort for an NYU AI
Incubator cluster hosted at Hudson IX in
the heart of Manhattan.
iMasons AI Incubator
Student-Powered
AI Service Platform
Companies share real world challenges and
students solve them.
iMasons AI connects student talent with company talent
to learn the industry and explore career opportunities.
Students
iMasons AI has created a private AI platform to provide students around the world with cloud capacity and AI/ML tools to participate in hackathons, capstone projects, company projects and their own school, innovation and entrepreneurial projects.
Our goal is to empower students to connect, grow and give back with our digital infrastructure industry community.
GOAL: Onboard our first 1,000 students in H1/2026 from colleges and universities around the world.
Education Partners
iMasons AI is partnering with local colleges and universities to provide their students with access to private cloud and AI/ML tools to work on real world challenges and real world experience in the digital infrastructure space.
SMU | Lyle School of Engineering: Host of our first Hackathon with 250 students scheduled for Q1/2026.Â
GOAL: Onboard our first 10 colleges and universities to support our first hackathon at SMU scheduled for the end of Q1/2026.
Hackathon
iMasons AI is partnering with schools and companies to host 24 hour hackathons for students in local regions.
Hackathon 1: Northern Texas
iMasons AI will host our first Hackathon at SMU Lyle School of Engineering, our led by the Texas Region local chapter, chaired by and hosted by on the campus of our first university partner.
- Sponsors: Open Compute Project Foundation, Poul Due Jensen Grundfos Foundation
- Location: SMU Lyle School of Engineering, Dallas Texas
- Capacity: 250 students – 10+ senior teams, 30+ junior teams
- Date: End of Q1/2026. Start; 10am Saturday. Judging / Awards; 12 noon Sunday.
- Local Chapter Lead: Denitza Arguirova from Crusoe
- Hackathon Host Lead: Dr Klyne Smith, SMU Lyle School of Engineering
Progress: 50 sponsorships secured through Open Compute Project Foundation & POUL DUE JENSEN GRUNDFOD Foundation.
GOAL: Secure 1,000 team sponsorships for 2026 hackathons across the US leading to the final hackathon at Yotta 2026 in Las Vegas.
Capstone Projects
iMasons AI formal development and research projects sponsored by diamond and platinum level sponsors that engage a student team made up of talent from one or more global universities, delivering on quarterly to annual development challenges.
Teams will be supported by iMasons mentors throughout the project to guide development.
Project 1:
iMasonsGPT – A private model capturing tacit knowledge from global members. Sponsored by OCP
Diamond Partners
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Platinum Partners
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Ambassadors
Rirk Van Slyke
Open Compute Project Foundation
Ashley Dirou
Grundfos
Denitza Arguirova
Crusoe
Dr. Klyne Smith
SMU Lyle School of Engineering
OCP Capstone Team
Jean Park
Ajit Sivakumar
Joseph Helfenbein
Kevin Kakkad
Michael Odekunle
Sharnova Nashra
Vayun Malik
Yuyang Hu
News
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Open Compute Project Foundation Becomes First Sponsor of the iMasons AI Incubator Program
