"IBM and Meta Join Forces to Establish Global AI Alliance"

IBM and Meta have formed the AI Alliance, a coalition of over 50 organizations including AMD, Intel, NASA, CERN, and Harvard University, with the goal of promoting open innovation and open science in AI. The alliance aims to provide alternatives to closed AI systems used by market leaders like OpenAI and Google, and encourages open AI research and the sharing of AI model weights and research. The AI Alliance plans to develop benchmarks, support AI hardware accelerators, and promote diversity in AI foundation models.