“ The AI Alliance is focused on accelerating and disseminating open innovation across the AI technology landscape to improve foundational capabilities, safety, security and trust in AI, and to responsibly maximize benefits to people and society everywhere.”

Sounds like a lobby group is all it is

Your comment make it sounds like that's inherently negative. Google/OpenAI are drumming their message of "AI needs to be in the hands of the few" while Meta is actually releasing models and building a thriving open-source ecosystem. If they create an alliance so that the voice of "AI needs to be in the hands of everyone" then this is a splendid effort.

Despite the connotation, lobbying is about a group making sure that Washington hears about their opinion.

> lobbying is about a group making sure that Washington hears about their opinion.

If it was just hearing opinion we wouldn't have any problem. Nobody pays that kind of money for just being heard. This is about shaping the future in a way that they think is best (which is usually best for them, not much for the rest of us)

> If they create an alliance so that the voice of "AI needs to be in the hands of everyone" then this is a splendid effort.

I find it naive to believe that the purpose of a for profit organization is anything but making profit. Meta move here is not altruistic, it's a simple "commodify your compliment" play.

> I find it naive to believe that the purpose of a for profit organization is anything but making profit.

Where did I imply that Meta is doing it out of the kindness of their heart? Of course they want money and of course they think this "open" approach will lead to more money. That doesn't change the fact that as an individual right now my opinions on regulating AI are more aligned with Meta's philosophy than Google and OpenAI. Both of which are equally doing this for their own profit.

> Meta is doing it out of the kindness of their heart?

Meta is a company, deosn't have a heart nor understand the concept of kindness.

Obviously it depends on exactly what those opinions will end up being. It's hard to dispel the idea that every other big company isn't trying to find a way to do exactly the same things as the other big players, just somewhere else down the line. My anticompetitive-potential detector definitely went off as soon as I read that headline.

It does sound negative because it wrote a bunch of bs but it sure look like a lobby group, but the competition is great to challenge closed AI models

So this is the third AI power, after OpenAI and Google. Fourth, if we consider Anthropic as a major player. This new Alliance has a lot of prominent research institutions as partners, not to mention HuggingFace. Interesting how the landscape takes shape.

> prominent research institutions as partners

How much of those are in it for the long term, or just looking for an easy access to their next grant...

Hard to bet against open.

No Nvidia? I saw Intel and AMD. How it will be played out and how significant it will be. Interesting time ahead.

Could we please fix the title?

I've attempted to fix it, using the subtitle.

(Submitted title was "IBM and Meta Launch Open AI Alliance with over 50 Founding Members")