The National Science Foundation (NSF) and 10 other agencies are working with AI developers to impleme part of an executive order by US Preside Joe Biden. The partnership will launch a pilot program that the governme says will make research more accessible.
The National Artificial Ielligence Research Resources (NAIRR) program will provide US-based AI researchers with access to artificial ielligence models, computing power, software datasets and training, NSF said in a stateme. Researchers can apply for access through the NAIRR website. If graed access, researchers can use expensive and powerful services such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Bedrock.
Besides the NSF, other governme agencies working on the NAIRR include the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NASA, the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Departme of Agriculture, the Departme of Defense, the Departme of Energy, and several others. will be Also, Amazon, Ahropic, AMD, Google, Iel, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI and IBM are among the companies that are prese in the realization of this program.
Microsoft and Nvidia pledge to launch Biden's artificial ielligence program
Microsoft announced that it has donated $20 million in Azure credits, access to AI models in Azure's OpenAI service, and resources to work on AI fairness, accuracy, and privacy. Nvidia has also committed to providing access to DGX Cloud and its AI Eerprise software.
NSF Director Sturaman Panchanathan says in this stateme:
“To coinue to advance AI research and developme, we must create opportunities across the coury to advance AI innovation and strengthen educational opportunities, empowering the nation to shape iernational standards and ignite economic growth.”
So the Biden administration has announced its executive order to launch the NAIRR with the goal of ensuring that the United States remains the ceer of AI innovation. NAIRR will initially focus on four areas: enabling access to diverse AI resources, enabling AI research that requires security and privacy, facilitating and developing ieroperability between AI platforms, and educating communities to use AI tools. NAIRR's first projects focus on the use of artificial ielligence in health care and environmeal sustainability, NSF also said in its stateme.
