IBM and Meta yesterday co-launched the AI Alliance, along with other leading organizations across industry, government and academia. The AI Alliance, according to IBM, is action oriented and decidedly international, designed to create opportunities everywhere through a diverse range of institutions that can shape the evolution of AI in ways that better reflect the needs and the complexity of our societies.
The AI Alliance is focused on fostering an open community and enabling developers and researchers to accelerate responsible innovation in AI while ensuring scientific rigor, trust, safety, security, diversity and economic competitiveness. The alliance members will pool resources and knowledge to address safety concerns while providing a platform for sharing and developing solutions that fit the needs of researchers, developers, and adopters around the world.
The AI Alliance has several objectives, including the responsible development and use of AI systems, the responsible advancement of open foundation models with diverse modalities, and the fostering of a vibrant AI hardware accelerator ecosystem.
The AI Alliance consists of a broad range of organizations including AMD, CERN, Dell Technologies, Hugging Face, Intel, Linux Foundation, Oracle, Red Hat and universities such as ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, UC Berkeley, and Yale University.
