We like to associate ribbon cutting with important road and bridge openings. They signal a new, faster, safer and future-oriented solution. This was also the case with “NorwAI”. 

Accordingly, when NTNU's rector Anne Borg put her scissors in the red ribbon in front of the red-painted CRAY, NTNU's first supercomputer from ‘80s - in its prime a state-of-the-art vehicle to the future, today, alas, parked as an exhibition object, - Anne Borg heralds the next step in computer science in Norway. 

The kick-off for the Norwegian Research Center for AI Innovation, NorwAI, was back in mid-November 2020. 
Coming into effect, NorwAI as the new digital highway, is greatly upgraded in standard, capacity and quality. Large, Norwegian industry players joined forces with NTNU and SINTEF in the use of artificial intelligence for business purposes by help of research. The center is funded for a maximum of eight years.