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The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has joined the "AI Alliance", a global open source initiative by IBM and Meta. This alliance, consisting of over 50 companies, universities and institutions, including renowned names such as the University of California (Berkeley), Yale University and ETH Zurich, aims to make artificial intelligence (AI) transparent and generally accessible.
The AI Alliance has set itself the goal of shaping the development of AI responsibly and promoting open source models. The mission includes the development of open foundation models, efficient software frameworks and tools, and the use of the hardware ecosystem to accelerate new software approaches. TUM will contribute its expertise in AI-based robotics and knowledge acquisition to the alliance. IBM will contribute its extensive expertise to the development of multimodal base models. An initial cooperation project between IBM and TUM is to be launched in the coming months, with many more projects between the partners to follow.
TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann says: “With this alliance, we want to accelerate the development of responsible, socially acceptable, and scalable AI solutions in partnership with other leading universities and companies.”
Alessandro Curioni, Director IBM Research Zurich and Vice President Europe and Africa, explains: “AI has been changing our world dramatically and will continue doing so, helping societies thrive. But to ensure that we keep pushing the envelope when it comes to the development and application of cutting-edge AI in a responsible, transparent, and open manner, we need to work together.”
With the AI Alliance, TUM is deliberately focusing on Open AI Models and a strong community that is working together responsibly to research relevant AI for society and develop it together with industry partners.