New Delhi: IBM and Meta have jointly unveiled the AI Alliance, a collaborative effort involving more than 50 global tech companies, as founding members and collaborators. The initiative aims to cultivate an open community, facilitating developers and researchers in advancing responsible AI innovation, and focusing on scientific rigour, trust, safety, security, diversity, and economic competitiveness. The AI Alliance is set to play a key role in shaping the future of AI.
Arvind Krishna, IBM Chairman and CEO, “This is a pivotal moment in defining the future of AI. IBM is proud to partner with like-minded organisations through the AI Alliance to ensure this open ecosystem drives an innovative AI agenda underpinned by safety, accountability and scientific rigour.”
The AI Alliance’s strategic goals include the development and implementation of benchmarks, evaluation standards, and tools, fostering responsible global AI system development. Additionally, the Alliance aims to establish a catalog of vetted safety, security, and trust tools. It also seeks to enhance the AI hardware accelerator ecosystem by encouraging contributions and adoption of essential enabling software technology.
To encourage open AI development in safe and beneficial ways, the AI Alliance will launch initiatives and host events exploring AI use cases. Alliance members, including AMD, CERN, Cornell University, Dell Technologies, EPFL, ETH, Imperial College London, Intel, Linux Foundation, NASA, NSF, Oracle, Partnership on AI, Red Hat, Sony Group, and Stability AI, among others, will participate in these efforts.
Nick Clegg, President of Global Affairs at Meta, highlighted that the AI Alliance will serve as a platform for researchers, developers, and companies to share tools and knowledge, facilitating progress, whether models are openly shared or not.
Lisa Su, CEO and Chair of AMD, stressed the importance of embracing open standards and transparency across the evolving AI ecosystem. According to Su, this approach will ensure that the transformative benefits of responsible AI are widely accessible.
