From Sept 14, SUTD’s LLM Gateway gives 3,000 students and 170 faculty a single campus door to 15 models, with privacy controls and an API path to 500 more.
SUTD students and staff get access to GPT, Claude, Gemini and other AI models from Sept 14 through a new campus platform called the SUTD Large Language Model (LLM) Gateway. The Singapore University of Technology and Design is opening the service to its 3,000 students and 170 faculty. The chat interface lists 15 models from six providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, as well as Qwen and Kimi.
Provost Chee Yeow Meng said there was previously no centralised access: faculty and students subscribed to providers separately using course or project budgets. “Rather than picking one AI company to standardise on, or having each person subscribe to different providers separately, SUTD is giving its community one common front door to multiple AI models,” he said. An API key can also connect users to a broader marketplace of more than 500 models.
The launch sits in a wider Singapore campus shift. Microsoft said in April it would give more than 200,000 tertiary students free access to Microsoft 365 premium, including Copilot. From August 2026, Nanyang Technological University students received Gemini Enterprise, Google AI Studio and Vertex AI; National University of Singapore students received ChatGPT Edu; and Singapore Management University students use Gemini Education Plus.
SUTD wants students to understand the strengths and limits of different models, critically assess outputs, and recognise when doing the work themselves matters for learning. Chee said prompts are not retained once a request is processed, providers cannot use SUTD data to train their models, and automated checks redact sensitive details such as phone numbers and ID numbers.
The offering ranges from lighter, faster models for everyday tasks to more advanced systems for in-depth research and complex reasoning. The idea is to give faculty and students the right tool for the task rather than defaulting everyone to the heaviest, most expensive model. Read more at The Straits Times.
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