The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Wednesday that it will launch the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot program in collaboration with several leading companies in the technology industry.
According to NSF, the NAIRR pilot aims to create a national resource for researchers and educators to access powerful AI technologies, with the goal of ensuring the United States continues to lead in AI research and innovation. It is said that
The companies and nonprofits participating in the two-year pilot program include a long list of AI giants, including Amazon (AMZN), Anthropic, Hugging Face, IBM (IBM), Intel (INTC), and Meta (META). I'm here. ), Microsoft (MSFT), Nvidia (NVDA), OpenAI, Palantir (PLTR), and more.
Federal agencies participating in this effort include the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Agriculture.
Born out of President Biden's AI Executive Order, NAIRR serves as a framework for how the government and private sector can advance AI technologies in the future.
“By investing in AI research through the NAIRR pilot, the United States can unlock discovery and impact and strengthen our global competitiveness,” NSF Director Seturaman Panchanathan said in a statement.
“To continue to lead in AI research and development, we need to drive AI innovation across the country, create opportunities to enhance educational opportunities, and enable the country to shape international standards and foster economic growth.” “There is,” he added.
According to NSF, NAIRR will serve as a shared national infrastructure that provides communities across the country with the hardware, models, and resources needed to advance the AI ecosystem.
NSF said the program is necessary because AI resources are concentrated and difficult to access for many communities, including small universities and institutions in provinces and territories.
Examples of potential use cases include enabling AI researchers to explore large-scale model validation and validation, and instructors at community colleges and minority education institutions providing students with access to AI systems. This includes making it possible.
The foundation says technology companies are not compensated for providing access to their services, but instead make in-kind contributions to those made by government agencies.
The donation includes support for 20 research projects from Amazon, access to Anthropic's Claude models for 10 researchers working on climate change projects, 100 computing grants from Hugging Face, and data from IBM. sets and benchmarks, $20 million in compute credits for Microsoft's Azure, and $30 million. Support from Nvidia includes his $24 million worth of computing for the company's DGX platform.
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