About the AI Alliance

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Our approach

The AI Alliance advances open source AI by fostering open innovation, building inclusive communities, sharing data, models, tools,and best practices while promoting transparency, safety, and responsible development to drive trustworthy AI adoption globally.
What we do
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Build

Advance open-source AI agents, models, data sets, and safety tools to enable responsible innovation in AI.
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Advocate

Advance open AI policy, technology standards, and global governance to promote safe, ethical, and trustworthy adoption of AI.
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Educate

Supports education and research through open science projects, collaborations, and resources for developers, students, and policymakers in AI.

Leadership

The AI Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to building and advancing open source AI agents, data, models, evaluation, safety, applications and advocacy to ensure everyone can benefit.

Open Agent Research and Education Lab

A collaborative, open source community where innovators, researchers, and engineers accelerate the deployment of domain-specific agentic AI in real-world enterprise environments by developing, sharing, and testing reusable components and reference applications.
Anthony Annunziata
Anthony J. Annunziata

Open Source AI at IBM and AI Alliance

Technology leader with a strong track record of bringing emerging technologies in AI, accelerated science and quantum computing out of the lab and into the world. PhD physicist with deep experience leading teams across research, software engineering, design, product management, sales, ecosystem partnerships and open source. I am energized by leading teams with bold missions and the potential for large impact.
Rebecca Weiss
Rebecca Weiss

Executive Director, MLCommons

Rebecca Weiss is the Executive Director of MLCommons, as well as a distinguished data scientist and computational social scientist known for innovative large-scale data analysis of online behavior. Previously, she was the head of Research and Innovation at Mozilla, where she created the privacy-preserving Rally user data donation platform, and also founded and led the Firefox Data Science organization.
Jose Plehn
Jose M. Plehn, PH.D.

Founder & CEO @ BrightQuery

Jose is the Founder and CEO of BrightQuery (BQ): The Factual AI Company, where he also leads BQ’s open data efforts through opendata.org. With over a decade of academic and commercial collaboration with U.S. statistical agencies like the IRS, NCSES, Census Bureau, BLS, and SBA, Jose brings deep expertise in economic and financial data.
Greg Lindahl
Greg Lindahl

CTO at Common Crawl Foundation

Greg Lindahl is an astrophysicist and technologist who has advised Common Crawl since 2012. He was previously the Founder and CTO of Blekko, an internet search engine. Before joining Common Crawl full-time in 2023, Greg was a member of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, working at the Center for Astrophysics - Harvard & Smithsonian. He has also contributed to the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. Greg is an experienced entrepreneur who has founded three successful startups.
Christopher Nguyen, CEO & Co-Founder of Aitomatic
Christopher Nguyen

CEO & Co-Founder of Aitomatic

Dr. Christopher Nguyen is CEO and co-founder of Aitomatic, a Silicon Valley leader in Industrial GenAI. As President and CEO of Arimo-Panasonic, he spearheaded Panasonic’s global Industrial AI initiatives. At Google, as its first Engineering Director, he launched Google Apps/Gmail and scaled AI-backed systems for millions worldwide, earning the Google Founders Award.
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AI Open Technology and Advocacy Association

A collaborative, open source community where innovators, researchers, and engineers accelerate the deployment of domain-specific agentic AI in real-world enterprise environments by developing, sharing, and testing reusable components and reference applications.
Anthony Annunziata
Anthony J. Annunziata

Open Source AI at IBM and AI Alliance

Technology leader with a strong track record of bringing emerging technologies in AI, accelerated science and quantum computing out of the lab and into the world. PhD physicist with deep experience leading teams across research, software engineering, design, product management, sales, ecosystem partnerships and open source. I am energized by leading teams with bold missions and the potential for large impact.
Sean Hughes
Sean Hughes

Director – Open-Science Ecosystem, ServiceNow

“Transparency is the new compute,” Sean Hughes likes to say, and he treats the motto as a blueprint. For him, open innovation is more than lifting the hood; it means building an ecosystem where people can co-create, inspect, and share open data, tools, and models, unleashing the state-of-the-art AI through collaborative scientific research that fuels new industries, delivers customer value, and benefits society at large.
Christopher Nguyen
Christopher Nguyen

CEO & Co-Founder of Aitomatic

Dr. Christopher Nguyen is CEO and co-founder of Aitomatic, a Silicon Valley leader in Industrial GenAI. As President and CEO of Arimo-Panasonic, he spearheaded Panasonic’s global Industrial AI initiatives. At Google, as its first Engineering Director, he launched Google Apps/Gmail and scaled AI-backed systems for millions worldwide, earning the Google Founders Award.
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Jose Plehn, Founder & CEO @ BrightQuery
Jose M. Plehn, Ph.D

Founder & CEO @ BrightQuery

Jose is the Founder and CEO of BrightQuery (BQ): The Factual AI Company, where he also leads BQ’s open data efforts through opendata.org. With over a decade of academic and commercial collaboration with U.S. statistical agencies like the IRS, NCSES, Census Bureau, BLS, and SBA, Jose brings deep expertise in economic and financial data.

Events

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November 20, 2025
AI Alliance Office Hours: AllyCat Year-End Update
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November 20, 2025
AI Alliance Boston Meetup #1

Governance

AI systems, especially AI agent systems, present highly promising capabilities, but we must ensure they are safe to use and deploy. The AI Alliance is deeply focused on ensuring AI is safe by developing tools, methods and best practices. The following is a summary of the governing structures and policies for the program and projects of the AI Alliance.
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Our community is made of leading AI innovators, researchers, developers, engineers, and early enterprise adopters whose goal is to advance open, safe, and responsible AI.

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