Meta and IBM's AI Alliance Launches Open-Source Sovereign AI Platform Project Tapestry in the US
2026-04-09 10:13
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en.Wedoany.com Reported - Meta and IBM's jointly founded Artificial Intelligence Alliance recently launched an open-source platform aimed at supporting the deployment of sovereign AI. Named Project Tapestry, this initiative was released by the non-profit AI Alliance and allows institutions, industries, and nations to collaborate on open foundational models while maintaining control over their own data.

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According to the AI Alliance's description, the Project Tapestry platform enables parties to flexibly build sovereign derivative models that reflect their priorities, industry characteristics, cultural context, legal frameworks, and value orientations. The project's long-term goal is to cultivate an open global model that leverages broader expertise, computational power, and domain knowledge to support specific sovereign AI models.

Anthony Annunziata, Chair of the AI Alliance, stated: "The AI Alliance was founded on the principle that open innovation can lead to more robust, responsible, and broadly beneficial artificial intelligence." "Project Tapestry is a significant step towards operationalizing that principle as infrastructure: providing the world with a path to collaboratively build advanced AI without ceding sovereignty."

Christopher Nguyen, Chief Architect of Project Tapestry and a board member of the AI Alliance, added: "To date, many sovereign and industry-specific AI efforts face significant challenges in computation, data access, funding, and specialized talent." "Project Tapestry aims to overcome these constraints through federated collaboration. The idea is simple yet powerful: build a shared global foundation openly, then allow each participant to extend it in ways they fully own and control."

Additionally, the AI Alliance announced that Yann LeCun, Chairman of AMI Labs and former Chief AI Scientist at Meta, will join the Alliance as Chief Scientific Advisor. LeCun is expected to guide the Alliance's scientific direction through the development of Project Tapestry. The AI Alliance is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization with over 200 members, co-founded by Meta and IBM in 2023. Its members include AMD, Dell Technologies, Hitachi, Hugging Face, Intel, Kakao, NEC, Oracle, Red Hat, Uber, and the Linux Foundation.

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