The cooperation of the Biden administration with Microsoft and Nvidia to launch an artificial intelligence project

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and 10 other agencies are working with AI developers to implement part of an executive order by US President Joe Biden. The partnership will launch a pilot program that the government says will make research more accessible.

The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resources (NAIRR) program will provide US-based AI researchers with access to artificial intelligence models, computing power, software datasets and training, NSF said in a statement. Researchers can apply for access through the NAIRR website. If granted access, researchers can use expensive and powerful services such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Bedrock.

Besides the NSF, other government 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 Department of Agriculture, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and several others. will be Also, Amazon, Anthropic, AMD, Google, Intel, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI and IBM are among the companies that are present in the realization of this program.

Microsoft and Nvidia pledge to launch Biden's artificial intelligence 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 Enterprise software.

NSF Director Sturaman Panchanathan says in this statement:

“To continue to advance AI research and development, we must create opportunities across the country to advance AI innovation and strengthen educational opportunities, empowering the nation to shape international 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 center 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 interoperability between AI platforms, and educating communities to use AI tools. NAIRR's first projects focus on the use of artificial intelligence in health care and environmental sustainability, NSF also said in its statement.