Meta and IBM Launch AI Alliance

Meta Platforms and International Business Machines launched a coalition of more than 50 artificial intelligence companies and research institutions that are pushing a so-called open model of AI, hoping to gain traction in a fast-growing market.

The AI Alliance, whose members include Intel, Oracle, Cornell University and the National Science Foundation, said it is pooling resources to stand behind “open innovation and open science” in AI. Its members largely support open source, an approach in which technology is shared free and draws on a history of collaboration among Big Tech, academics and a fervent movement of independent programmers. 

IBM said it has worked since August with Meta to bring together organizations that haven’t been in the limelight in the way OpenAI has, said Darío Gil, senior vice president at IBM and director of IBM Research.