Meta, the parent company of Facebook, along with IBM and more than 50 other artificial intelligence (AI) related companies and institutions, have formed an 'AI Alliance.' Following the industry attention garnered by ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, within a year of its release for generative AI development, the alliance plans to provide large language models (LLM) as open source to catch up.
According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on the 5th (local time), Meta and IBM have decided to form an 'AI Alliance' together with 50 AI companies and research institutions promoting open AI models.
The 'AI Alliance' is expected to include U.S. semiconductor companies such as Intel, AMD, and Oracle, as well as startups like Silo AI and Stability AI. Universities such as Yale and Cornell, along with U.S. government agencies including NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF), are also listed as participants.
The alliance is gathering resources to support 'open innovation and open science' in the AI field and plans to support open source by having big tech companies and academia share technology for free.
WSJ analyzed that the companies participating in the 'AI Alliance' possess their own AI technologies but are striving to catch up with OpenAI and Microsoft (MS).
Dario Gil, Senior Vice President of IBM, explained the reason for establishing the AI Alliance, saying, "Together with Meta, we have been working since August this year to gather companies that have not received as much attention as OpenAI," and added, "Discussions about AI over the past year have not reflected the diversity of the ecosystem." Earlier, unlike OpenAI, MS, and Google, Meta publicly released its own LLM called 'Llama 2' in July, making the related technology available for commercial use.
AMD, regarded as a rival to Nvidia, emphasized, "We will support the open AI ecosystem with hardware and build software that can use our chips together with other member companies."
The AI Alliance is initially focusing on six areas including regulation and safety, and plans to release tools for AI safety and model verification soon.
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