Forbes March 21, 2025
The AI Alliance was founded in December 2023 by IBM and Meta, along with 50 other initial members. Over a year’s time, its membership has grown quickly, so that now it has more than 140 worldwide members and allows companies, non-profits and academic institutions of all sizes to collaborate on building a robust and open AI ecosystem. In the bigger picture, the AI Alliance has become an important force in the democratization of AI, which is why it’s worth reviewing what it has accomplished in its first year-plus of existence.
Before we get into those specifics, it’s important to understand why the organization was founded in the first place. For most of AI’s history, open source development was a fragmented...