IANS | 05 Dec, 2023
IBM and Meta on Tuesday launched the AI Alliance in collaboration
with over 50 tech companies, founding members and collaborators
globally.
The AI Alliance is focused on fostering an open
community and enabling developers and researchers to accelerate
responsible innovation in AI while ensuring scientific rigour, trust,
safety, security, diversity and economic competitiveness.
"This is
a pivotal moment in defining the future of AI. IBM is proud to partner
with like-minded organizations through the AI Alliance to ensure this
open ecosystem drives an innovative AI agenda underpinned by safety,
accountability and scientific rigour,” said Arvind Krishna, IBM Chairman
and CEO.
The AI Alliance plans 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, including
the creation of a catalog of vetted safety, security and trust tools.
It
aims to foster a vibrant AI hardware accelerator ecosystem by boosting
contributions and adoption of essential enabling software technology.
The
AI Alliance will launch initiatives that encourage open development of
AI in safe and beneficial ways, and host events to explore AI use cases
and showcase how Alliance members are using open technology in AI
responsibly and for good.
The other participants in the AI
Alliance are 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.
Nick Clegg, President, Global Affairs of Meta, added that
the AI Alliance brings together researchers, developers and companies to
share tools and knowledge that can help us all make progress whether
models are shared openly or not.
According to Lisa Su, AMD CEO
and Chair, 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”.