50 institutions around the world, including Intel and AMD, formed an AI alliance, and Chinese institutions and Nvidia were excluded from the silicon-based world
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Titanium Media App reported on December 5 that according to IBM's official website this morning, more than 50 founding members and collaborators around the world, including Intel, AMD, IBM, Meta, Oracle, Hugging Face, Sony Group, Dartmouth College, Cornell University, Yale University, University of Tokyo, Linux Foundation, etc., jointly initiated the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Alliance (AI Alliance) to accelerate responsible innovation and development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.
At present, the official website of the AI Alliance, thealliance.ai, has been launched.
It is worth noting that the establishment of the AI Alliance does not include key players in the AI industry, such as OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Chinese enterprises and research institutions.
According to the official website, the AI Alliance is a community of technology creators, developers, and adopters who work together to advance safe and responsible AI rooted in open innovation. The AI Alliance is action-oriented and distinctly international, committed to accelerating and disseminating open innovation in the field of AI technologies to improve the foundational capabilities, security, and trust of AI, and responsibly deliver the greatest benefits to people and societies around the world. The alliance brings together a vast array of compute, data, tools, and talent to accelerate open innovation in AI.
Specifically, the AI Alliance focus area includes four components: developing and deploying benchmarks and evaluation criteria, tools, and other resources for the responsible and scalable development and use of AI systems on a global scale, open foundation models, enabling an ecosystem of open foundation models with multiple models, fostering a vibrant ecosystem of AI-accelerated hardware, and supporting global AI skillbuilding, education, and exploratory research.
According to information released by IBM, AI Alliance partners and collaborators include: Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Aitomatic, AMD, Cerebras, Anyscale, Meta, CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Cleveland Clinic, Cornell University, Dartmouth, Dell Technologies, EPFL, ETH Zurich, Fast.ai, Fenrir, Inc., FPT Industrial Software, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hugging Face, IBM, Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Imperial College London, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Intel, Linux Foundation, Mohammed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, INSAIT, Bulgaria's new AI research institute, NASA, National Science Foundation, New York University, Oracle, NumFOCUS, OpenTeams, LangChain, Sony Group, Partnership on AI, Red Hat, Stability AI, Technical University of Munich, UC Berkeley School of Computing, Data Science and Society, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Texas at Austin, University of Tokyo, Yale University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, etc.
From the perspective of regional distribution, the members of the AI Alliance are concentrated in the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and other countries and regions.
According to the data, up to now, the total annual R&D expenditure of all members of the AI Alliance has exceeded 80 billion yuan, and the total number of employees has exceeded 1 million. At the same time, more than 400,000 students and AI practitioners are funded by academic institutions.
Commenting on the AI Alliance, IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna said, "The advances we're witnessing in AI are a testament to open innovation and collaboration among a community of creators, scientists, academics, and business leaders. This is a pivotal moment defining the future of AI. IBM is proud to partner with like-minded organizations through the AI Alliance to ensure that this open ecosystem drives innovative AI processes underpinned by security, accountability, and scientific rigor. ”
Lisa Su, CEO and Chairman of AMD, said, "At AMD, we are committed to advancing technology through collaboration. The history of our industry highlights how open, standards-based development leverages the capabilities of the industry as a whole to accelerate innovation and ensure that technological advancements have the greatest positive impact. By adopting open standards and transparency in all aspects of the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem, we can help ensure that the transformative benefits of responsible AI are widely utilized. ”
Lisa Su emphasized that AMD is honored to be a founding member of the AI Alliance along with other industry leaders and looks forward to working together to ensure that the rapid development of AI becomes a force for positive change.
(This article was first published on the Titanium Media App, author: Lin Zhijia)