Major Tech and Research Organizations Launch AI Alliance to Promote Open Innovation
A new alliance aimed at promoting open innovation and scientific progress in artificial intelligence was announced today. The AI Alliance brings together over 50 leading technology companies, academic institutions, and research centers to collaborate on advancing AI in an ethical, inclusive, and transparent manner.
The founding members of the AI Alliance include tech giants IBM and Meta, chipmaker AMD, cloud software provider Red Hat, Sony, academia heavyweights such as MIT, UC Berkeley, and Yale, and AI research centers including Hugging Face and fast.ai.
In the announcement, IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna stated, “The progress we continue to witness in AI is a testament to open innovation and collaboration across communities of creators, scientists, academics and business leaders.” Krishna added that the AI Alliance will “ensure this open ecosystem drives an innovative AI agenda underpinned by safety, accountability and scientific rigor.”
The Alliance aims to support the development of AI tools, models, educational resources, policy recommendations, and best practices. It plans to launch project groups focused on areas like benchmarks and standards, multilingual AI models, hardware and software infrastructure, AI skills building, and communication about AI.
Specifically, the Alliance aims to “develop and deploy benchmarks and evaluation standards, tools, and other resources that enable the responsible development and use of AI systems at global scale,” said Nick Clegg, President of Global Affairs at Meta.
The AI Alliance will be governed by a board consisting of representatives from the member organizations. The Linux Foundation will provide neutral infrastructure to host AI Alliance projects in areas like AI trust and safety.
“By embracing open standards and transparency across all aspects of the rapidly developing AI ecosystem, we can help ensure the transformational benefits of responsible AI are broadly available,” said AMD CEO and Chair Lisa Su.
The AI Alliance marks an unprecedented effort to align priorities and pool resources across corporations, governments, non-profits, and academia to steer the responsible development of AI. Its launch signifies deep investments by Big Tech in open ecosystems amid growing calls for algorithmic accountability.
