BearGPT Curated Assistants (Pilot)

A service overview and catalog of BearGPT Curated Assistants (Pilot) provided by the UC Berkeley IT Service Hub.

Description

Built in partnership with UC San Diego, these assistants use the UCSD TritonGPT AI platform. The pilot program — a collaboration between Berkeley IT and Berkeley People & Culture — gives departments a safe, managed and low-cost environment to test AI.
BearGPT Assistant creators and maintainers must agree to curate the underlying data for their assistants to ensure accuracy, policy compliance and consistent grounding in official campus resources.

Benefits & Features

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BearGPT Curated Enterprise Assistants provides UC Berkeley departments and campus functions with a platform and consulting services to develop specialized, university-supported AI assistants.
These assistants use curated, approved campus information sources to answer questions and support productivity and learning.
This allows departments and university leaders to create secure, authenticated, UC Berkeley–specific assistants for internal use. These assistants may include P2 data. Approval for P3 data is expected in 2026; if your use case requires P3 data, contact the team for early-adopter consideration.
Assistants can be designed for the entire UC Berkeley community—currently all faculty and staff during the pilot—or for a targeted audience, such as a department intranet or a defined subset of the campus population. For student-facing use cases, please reach out to the team for early-adopter consideration.

More information can be found at hr.berkeley.edu/beargpt

Getting Started

Faculty and staff may submit a request to access BearGPT Enterprise Assistants. Requests are evaluated as part of the BearGPT pilot. Each chatbot requires an MOU and chartstring before activation (Internal Assistants are not cost-recovered during the pilot.

More information and updates are available on the BearGPT website.

Service Details

Eligibility	This service is available to Faculty, Staff, and Researchers.
Contact	Technical Support: For help or to request a BearGPT Enterprise Assistant, please contact beargpt@berkeley.edu.
Availability	Available 24/7. Support is provided Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM PT, excluding University holidays and curtailment periods.
Cost	There are no direct costs associated with this service.
Data Classification	This service is rated for P2, A1, and R1 data. Compliance: Users are responsible for ensuring data handled within this service complies with the Data and IT Resource Classification Standards.