What is AI Alliance and Why IBM, Meta, Dell, NASA and Others 50 Launched it

IBM, Meta, Dell, NASA, Oracle, Boston and Harvard University with over 50 Founding Members are in global collaboration and formed the AI Alliance for the safer, secure, open and transparent use of any artificial intelligence-based technology, devices, research or findings. 

Why there is a dearth need for AI Alliance: Vision behind AI Alliance

AI Alliance – a group of leading organizations across industry, startup, academia, research and government came together to support open innovation and open science in AI. The AI Alliance is an action-oriented society designed to create opportunities everywhere through a diverse range of AI implementations to reflect the needs and solve the complexity of societies. 

The AI Alliance is an open community that enables developers and researchers to accelerate responsible innovation in AI while ensuring scientific rigour, trust, safety, security, diversity and economic competitiveness. By bringing together leading developers, scientists, academic institutions, companies, and other innovators,  AI Alliance 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. Must Read: AI Images consume as much energy as charging your smartphone

What challenges of open innovation will AI Alliance support: Solving the problem of open innovations

While there are many individual companies, start-ups, researchers, governments, and others who are committed to open science and open technologies and want to participate in the new wave of AI innovation, more collaboration and information sharing will help the community innovate faster and more inclusively, and identify specific risks and mitigate those risks before putting a product into the world.

Who are the founders of AI Alliance: Industry, Government and Academia

IBM and Meta in collaboration to co-launch the AI Alliance with leading organizations across industry, government and academia. Alliance in collaboration with over 50 Founding Members and Collaborators globally including AMD, Anyscale, CERN, Cerebras, Cleveland Clinic, Cornell University, Dartmouth, Dell Technologies, EPFL, ETH, Hugging Face, Imperial College London, Intel, INSAIT, Linux, Foundation, MLCommons, MOC Alliance operated by Boston University and Harvard University, NASA, NSF, Oracle, Partnership on AI, Red Hat, Roadzen, ServiceNow, Sony Group, Stability AI, University of California Berkeley, University of Illinois, University of Notre Dame, The University of Tokyo, Yale University and others. 

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What are the Focus Areas of the AI Alliance: Aims and Objectives of AI Alliance

AI Alliance members intend to start or enhance projects aligned with its mission to accelerate open innovation across the AI technology landscape that responsibly benefits people and society everywhere.

Focus Area 1: Responsible, Scalable AI: Create benchmarks, tools, and methodologies to ensure and evaluate high-quality and safe AI

Focus Area 2: Open Foundation Models: Enable an ecosystem of open foundation models with diverse modalities.

Focus Area 3: Diversified AI Hardware: Foster a vibrant AI hardware accelerator ecosystem.

Focus Area 4:  Skills, Education and Research: Support global AI skills-building, education, and exploratory research

AI Alliance $80 Billion Funding for Research and Development: Funding and Staff Members

The AI Alliance’s $80 billion funding for research and development represents a significant investment in artificial intelligence, spanning various sectors including industry, startups, academia, research, and government. 

The AI Alliance, comprising over a million staff members from various institutions, is committed to enhancing the knowledge and skills of its workforce in the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence. This initiative also extends to supporting 400,000 students across affiliated academic institutions. The Alliance aims to foster a deep understanding of AI technologies and their applications, ensuring that both staff and students are well-equipped to navigate and contribute to the advancements in this dynamic sector. This comprehensive educational endeavour reflects a significant investment in human capital, vital for driving innovation and maintaining a competitive edge in the global AI landscape.

Who are the AI Alliance Members: List of founders of AI Alliance from Industry, Government and Academia

AI Alliance Launches as an International Community of Leading Technology Developers, Researchers, and Adopters Collaborating Together to Advance Open, Safe, Responsible AI

List of AI Alliance Members from Industry, Government and Academia

Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)	Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Aitomatic	MLCommons
AMD	National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Anyscale	National Science Foundation
Cerebras	New York University
CERN	NumFOCUS
Cleveland Clinic	OpenTeams
Cornell University	Oracle
Dartmouth	Partnership on AI
Dell Technologies	Quansight
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne	Red Hat
ETH Zurich	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Fast.ai	Roadzen
Fenrir, Inc.	Sakana AI
FPT Software	SB Intuitions
Hebrew University of Jerusalem	ServiceNow
Hugging Face	Silo AI
IBM	Simons Foundation
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)	Sony Group
Imperial College London	Stability AI
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay	Together AI
Institute for Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence	TU Munich
Intel	UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
Keio University	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
LangChain	The University of Notre Dame
LlamaIndex	The University of Texas at Austin
Linux Foundation	The University of Tokyo
Mass Open Cloud Alliance, operated by Boston University and Harvard	Yale University
Meta	Silo AI
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence	Simons Foundation
MLCommons	Sony Group
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	Stability AI
National Science Foundation	Together AI
New York University	TU Munich
NumFOCUS	UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society
OpenTeams	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Oracle	The University of Notre Dame
Partnership on AI	The University of Texas at Austin
Quansight	The University of Tokyo
Red Hat	Yale University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	Sakana AI
Roadzen	ServiceNow
SB Intuitions