FY2025 Accomplishments
Launching Higher Ed’s First Mobile AI App
Less than a year after introducing U-M’s custom set of AI tools, the first of its kind in higher education, the Emerging Technology team set their sights on the next milestone: an AI mobile app provided to the campus community at no cost.
Go Blue, the powerful mobile AI app, was launched in February 2025. Providing real-time, U-M specific information such as dining hall menus, bus schedules, and fun facts, Go Blue enhances life on the Ann Arbor campus for students, faculty, and staff, all while providing simultaneous access to OpenAI’s GPT4 model.
The first release of Go Blue is a great starting point in exploring what we can build at U-M. As the Emerging Technology team continues to add data sources and functionality to the app, it will become an even better campus companion.
Help us shape the future of AI at U-M by joining the Go Blue Beta Testing Team
Maizey and Canvas: the Perfect Match
As generative artificial intelligence became more integrated with campus life in FY2025, we saw instructors and students engage with U-M's tools more than ever. The U-M Maizey LTI Connector was used to create over 500 AI tutors, accessible around-the-clock, with access to course materials provided in Canvas.
The LTI Connector turns a few clicks by an instructor into a virtual teaching assistant with access to lecture slides, recordings, and more. Approximately 5,500 students engaged with course-custom Maizeys to ask questions, create study guides, and more deeply understand the material outside the classroom and office hours.
Maizeys created using the U-M Maizey LTI Connector are even accessible to students through Go Blue. When the student signs in to the app, the Maizeys created in Canvas are automatically connected so they can even study on the go!
More Engagement Than Ever
FY2025 saw an increase in the number of wolverines engaging with U-M's AI services. The total number of users of U-M GPT surpassed 43,800, increasing by over 30%, and over 5,800 unique Maizey projects were created. These numbers are not only a testament to AI’s increasing popularity but to the 12 releases of new tools and features made by the Emerging Technology team. With each release, improvements to the functionality of U-M GPT, Maizey, and Go Blue made engaging with U-M's custom AI tools more effective and accessible for everyone on campus.
U-M GPT used 102,319,599,639 tokens, which is equal to about 76.7 billion words — that’s enough words to repeat Taylor Swift’s discography over 900,000 times (vault tracks included), fill enough sheets of paper with 12pt font, when laid end to end, to circumnavigate the globe with 2,000 miles to spare, or over 1.5 million copies of the Dune and Wicked screenplays combined — talk about holding space, it’s time to call ARC for an increase in storage!