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Feds kick off National AI Research Resource with pilot program live today
A year to the day after it was proposed, the National AI Research Resource is coming online — at least in pilot form — as a coalition of U.S. agencies and
The National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, NASA, NOAA, DARPA and others are all partners in the effort, both providing resources (like datasets and consultation) and working with applicants in their areas of expertise. In a panoply of statements, executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft commit a variety of resources, expertise, free access, and so on to the NAIRR effort. As the NSF’s Katie Antypas put it, NAIRR is “will provide the research community access to the computing the data, the models, the software, and the training resources that are necessary to advance the AI ecosystem.
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