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Ken Griffin's $3 billion gift is the biggest in US college history

Hedge fund founder Ken Griffin gave $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon — the largest single donation to an American university ever — to fund a new Miami campus focused on the AI era. The gift will reshape how one of the country's top research universities prepares students for what's next. Love it or debate it, it's a bet on the future at a scale we've never seen.

The upbeat factorThe largest university gift in American history.
✓ Verified · Associated Press (via Gray Television) · 2026-09-30 · USA
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