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IBM Research announces the release of several new open-source AI models for materials discovery: https://lnkd.in/gqJk4Y_G ⚛️ - Aimed at accelerating the search for more sustainable materials with applications in chip fabrication, clean energy, and consumer packaging, these foundation models pre-trained on vast molecular databases can be used to screen millions of molecules at a time for desirable properties while weeding out the ones with dangerous side-effects. 📚 - Explore the models and the new working group for materials that IBM has launched through The AI Alliance in the link above. Start building with IBM’s Foundation Models for Materials (FMF4) below: 👾 - GitHub: https://lnkd.in/guUr9kng 🤗 - Hugging Face: https://lnkd.in/gURHJ66f 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁? IBM researchers will demo the foundation models at the upcoming Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference in February. In the coming year, they plan to release new #fusion techniques and models built on additional data modalities, including the positioning of atoms in 3D space. Stay tuned. ---- #IBM #AI #Chemistry #Sustainability

If you're passionate about AI Trust and Safety, we encourage you to get involved in our AI Alliance Trust and Safety working group! 📖 Learn more about our recent work: https://lnkd.in/eV4aCgjQ 📩 contact@thealliance.ai

We are one year old! 🎂    Last December, 57 global organizations came together to build, enable, and advocate for open source innovation in #AI. Today, we’re 140+ members strong and are just getting started! Over the last year, we’ve hit the following milestones:    ✅ 93 active projects  ✅ 1,200 collaborators  ✅ 12 working groups  ✅ 5 published AI Alliance Guides to AI   ✅ 30 events attended by 20,000 people    To commemorate our one-year anniversary, we are committing to scale up the breadth of our reach and impact by 10x going into 2025. As part of this, we’re announcing two new major initiatives – our Trust and Safety Evaluation Initiative and our Open Trusted Data Initiative – to help bolster our work promoting open source ecosystems and ensure that the future #AI landscape is rooted in safety, ethics, and a shared vision for the greater good. 2024 has been a strong first year for the AI Alliance, and we want to thank everyone who made it possible!   🎉 Join us in celebrating our first year and read more about what’s to come: https://lnkd.in/eBpN_3n8

The UN declared 2022-2032 the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, drawing global attention to the critical situation of many indigenous languages, and making a global call for action to identify ways to preserve, revitalize and promote these languages. To help further the International Decade, UNESCO, Meta, and Hugging Face launched an online Language Translator. https://lnkd.in/g5PmD33v We are proud to include the UNESCO language translator as an example of an AI Alliance affiliate project that demonstrates the value of open-source AI, and look forward to more projects to protect and promote low-resources languages.

💡 We are pleased to announce datacraft as one of our AI Alliance members in France! 🇫🇷 Explore our latest member spotlight featuring Raphaël Vienne, Head of AI at datacraft to gain insights into his leadership to promote an open and collaborative environment for AI education, research, and skills development. 🎙 “datacraft is about sharing and learning from your peers, a kind of openness that is rooted in the AI Alliance core values.” - Raphaël Vienne Read the full blog to learn more: https://lnkd.in/epvNffbM

 💡 Today we are excited to welcome SISSA as a new member of AI Alliance with a spotlight on Roberto Trotta, Professor of Theoretical Physics and Head of Data Science at SISSA. In this spotlight, Robert shares his take on the importance of open scientific collaboration and open-source AI: "We are inspired by such an approach particularly in the scientific field, where open innovation can translate into a much faster pace of progress; and in terms of its societal and ethical impacts, where openness is required to ensure that the benefits of AI can be shared equally.” - Roberto Trotta Check out the post to learn more about Robert his contributions to fundamental AI research and education and ethics: https://lnkd.in/eRz7zXXW

Anthony J. Annunziata of the AI Alliance joins Floss Weekly to discuss what open source means in AI. https://lnkd.in/gzHhTnNs

We are excited to participate in the upcoming AI for Drug Discovery Open Innovation Forum on October 30th, 2024 at Boston University – in collaboration with IBM, MOC Alliance, Red Hat, Cleveland Clinic, Hariri Institute for Computing, Boston University; and the Boston Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Boston University College of Engineering. Our goal? To establish an open research community driving the development and adoption of AI foundation models to accelerate scientific advancements in drug discovery. 🚀 🌟 What to expect: - Keynotes & panels on the latest AI tech and challenges in drug discovery - Breakout sessions to identify and prioritize key AI technologies - Hands-on sessions and opportunities to work with open-source foundation models for drug discovery like Biomedical Foundation Models 🌐 This forum will serve as the kickoff event for our new AI for Drug Discovery working group within the AI Alliance! Interested in getting involved? This event is open to everyone—we encourage anyone interested to join us and participate. Learn more and register here: https://lnkd.in/eXN3XMUq

The AI Alliance, formed last year by Meta & IBM, has expanded its membership with 7 leading Indian organizations: AI4Bhārat, IIT Jodhpur, Rajasthan, Infosys, KissanAI, People+ai, Sarvam, and, Wadhwani AI. These companies join along side Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, one of the founding members of the AI Alliance. This move reinforces India's growing contribution to the global AI landscape and marks a significant expansion of the AI Alliance which now includes over 120 member organizations.

I was honored to have the opportunity to present as a keynote speaker at #Accelerate24, held at The University of British Columbia, where, together with IBM team (Jed Pitera, Joe Sehl, Sean Wagner), I shared the global efforts of IBM Research on the Foundation Model for Materials and The AI Alliance working group on material discovery. The conference was an incredible four days filled with unforgettable people and cutting-edge projects conducted at Acceleration Consortium. A big thank you to Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Brandon Lines, Sean Caffrey, Padraic Foley, Anne Robinson for the excellent organization, the invitation, and the warm hospitality! Key takeaways from the keynote: (1) We're developing a multi-modal foundation model, currently covering nine modalities: SMILES , SELFIES, molecular graphs, 3D atom positions, 3D electron density, molecular descriptors, DFT properties, UV spectrum, and text descriptions. (2) The model is applied across various sustainable material domains, such as batteries and PFAS replacements. (3) The model is aimed at being consumed via a conversational UI. (4) The open development of the foundation model is gaining global momentum through The AI Alliance. We’re excited to welcome new members to The AI Alliance as we collaborate to accelerate global advancements in material discovery! The presentation above is a comprehensive summary of the outstanding works led by Emilio Vital Brazil, Eduardo Soares, Flaviu Cipcigan, Dave Braines, Tim Erdmann, Dmitry Zubarev, Kristin Schmidt, Jed Pitera, Mohab Elkaref, Geeth de Mel, Shinnosuke Tanaka, Indra Priyadarsini, Lisa Hamada, Hajime Shinohara, Akihiro Kishimoto, and many more dedicated team members. Huge kudos to everyone involved! ２週間前、ブリティッシュコロンビア大学で開催された国際会議 Accelerate 2024にて、基調講演を行う機会を頂き、IBM Researchによる材料開発のための基盤モデルの概要および、AI Allianceにおける材料開発に関する活動について講演させて頂きました。 基調講演の主なポイントは以下の通りです： (1) 現在9つのモダリティ（SMILES、SELFIES、分子グラフ、3D原子位置、3D電子密度、分子記述子、DFT特性、UVスペクトル、テキスト記述）をカバーするマルチモーダルな基盤モデルを開発中。 (2)このモデルは、バッテリーやPFAS代替物など、さまざまな持続可能な材料分野に応用されつつあります。 (3) このモデルは、会話型UIを介して利用することを目指しています。 (4) この基盤モデルのオープン開発が、AI Allianceを通じて大きなモメンタムとして広がりつつあります。 世界全体における材料開発を加速するために、AI Allianceに新たなメンバーが加わり、ともに基盤モデルを開発できるのを楽しみにしています！ #ai #material #chemistry #AccelerationConsortium #ibm