{"id":202247,"date":"2026-04-03T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/governor-hochul-announces-ai-platform-clay-to-expand-new-york-city-headquarters-creating-nearly-500-high-paying-jobs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:25:00","slug":"governor-hochul-announces-ai-platform-clay-to-expand-new-york-city-headquarters-creating-nearly-500-high-paying-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/governor-hochul-announces-ai-platform-clay-to-expand-new-york-city-headquarters-creating-nearly-500-high-paying-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Hochul Announces AI Platform Clay to Expand New York City Headquarters, Creating Nearly 500 High-Paying Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esd.ny.gov\/esd-media-center\/press-releases\/governor-hochul-announces-ai-platform-clay-expand-new-york-city\">Governor Hochul Announces AI Platform Clay to Expand New York City Headquarters, Creating Nearly 500 High-Paying Jobs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esd.ny.gov\/esd-media-center\/press-releases\/governor-hochul-announces-ai-platform-clay-expand-new-york-city\">https:\/\/esd.ny.gov\/esd-media-center\/press-releases\/governor-hochul-announces-ai-platform-clay-expand-new-york-city<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-03 14:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"esd.ny.gov\">esd.ny.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Governor Kathy Hochul announced that Clay, a New York City-founded AI platform, will expand its headquarters, leasing 163,095 square feet at 11 Madison Avenue in Manhattan. <\/li>\n<li>The Empire State Development (ESD) will provide up to $9.96 million in tax credits through the Excelsior Jobs Program to support the expansion.<\/li>\n<li>Clay has committed to creating 498 full-time jobs and investing $50 million in research and development (R&amp;D) over five years in New York State.<\/li>\n<li>The expansion aims to support Governor Hochul&#8217;s efforts to enhance New York\u2019s innovation economy, particularly in artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>Empire State Development\u2019s Hope Knight emphasized Clay\u2019s decision as evidence of New York City\u2019s attractiveness for innovative companies and its global leadership in emerging technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Hochul Announces AI Platform Clay to Expand New York City Headquarters, Creating Nearly 500&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-202247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}