The AI Alliance, a non-profit AI research and open-source technology coalition with more than 200 member organisations, launched Project Tapestry to empower open and sovereign AI development globally. The project targets to build a new open-source platform to enable distributed, globally federated training of frontier open models.
"Some of the most important advances in science and technology have come from open science, open-source software, and open technology platforms at a broad scale. Project Tapestry is an ambitious effort to bring that model to AI — to create the conditions for open, distributed progress on systems of real capability,” said Dr Yann LeCun, chairman of AMI Labs, professor at NYU, and chief science advisor to the AI Alliance.
Project Tapestry
Project Tapestry aims to facilitate advanced AI development through collaboration among institutions, industries, and nations, allowing each participant to build more capable open-source base models and create sovereign derivative models aligned with their specific industries, goals, cultures, legal frameworks, and values.
Dr Christopher Nguyen, chief architect of Project Tapestry, Board member of the AI Alliance, and CEO & co-founder of Aitomatic, said: "The idea is simple but powerful: build a shared global base openly, then enable each participant to extend it in ways they fully own and control."
"Project Tapestry is an ambitious step toward making that principle real in infrastructure form: a path for the world to build the most advanced and capable AI collaboratively, but without giving up sovereignty," said Dr Anthony Annunziata, chairman of the AI Alliance and director of AI Open Innovation at IBM.
Looking forward, the alliance hopes to create an open global model, a shared open-source base foundation model that can access larger pools of subject knowledge, expertise, and computation than any one organisation could normally put together on its own.
