Open Innovation AI Research Community

The Open Innovation AI Research Community will foster transparency, innovation, and collaboration. University partners will explore topics related to privacy, safety, and security of large language models, give input into the refinement of foundational models and set an agenda for future collaborative research.

The group will become a community of practice championing large open-source foundation models where partners can collaborate and engage with each other, share learnings, and raise questions on how to build responsible and safe foundation models. They will also accelerate training of the next generation of researchers. We anticipate that the community will establish the conditions to build better quality future models by growing and diversifying the community of practitioners. We believe a community with partners from diverse geographies and institutions will create a set of positive dynamics to foster more robust and representative models.

The research community's governance principles will ultimately be defined by its members. We expect this to be a member-led group with Meta Al serving as a facilitator. We expect several Meta Al researchers will participate in the effort. Illustrative activities and outputs may include:

• Transparent governance model
• Independent website
• Slack channel(s) for information sharing
• Published white papers/Conference submissions

As part of these activities, Meta intends to sponsor a series of workshops where participants will come together to align on the most critical open research questions and develop guidelines for responsible open source model development and release.