Imperial grants all staff and students access to AI models including ChatGPT-5
University follows Oxford in providing ChatGPT-5 to community.
Imperial College has released a new generative AI platform called dAIsy, on which students and staff can access a variety of large-language model agents, including various versions of ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok, and Llama.
The proof-of-concept platform was created to “comply with Imperial’s data governance and compliance policies, creating a secure environment for users to experiment and utilise AI capabilities.”
Usage of the platform is monitored using university Microsoft Single Sign Ons, for reasons of “security, cost, and service improvement.” Prompts, metadata and outputs will be logged. However, data shared in the chat will not be used to train external models.
According to the dAIsy use policy, entering data that of a personal, sensitive, or confidential nature is not permitted, with policy breaches leading to sanctions. Unpublished research should not be uploaded either.
A daily token limit is enforced for agent usage to “protect budget and ensure fairness.” In addition to the "Official Agents", which include ChatGPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 5, users can also create “Personal Agents”, which can be configured with “specific instructions, knowledge sources, and behaviours”.
In September, the University of Oxford had also started providing ChatGPT-5 to all students and staff members through a platform called ChatGPT Edu, become the first university in the country to do so. The London School of Economics, meanwhile, has given students and staff access to Claude for Education since May, as part of a one-year pilot scheme.
