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NAIRR

Oct 22, 2024

The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) is an effort to democratize AI for research.1 It will do this by establishing a national infrastructure that provides researchers the data, software, models, and training to participate in AI research.2 It was preceded by a report written by the NAIRR Task Force and established by the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence in October 2023.3

NSF was tasked with taking the lead on NAIRR, but there are 13 federal agencies and 26 non-governmental partners involved.2

Pilot

The NAIRR Pilot began in January 2024, will run for two years, and is a prerequisite to establishing the “full-scale NAIRR.”3 It is currently implemented as a portal that federates access to donated resources based on awarded allocations.

The federal NAIRR pilot members include:2

  1. NSF
  2. DARPA
  3. DOD
  4. Department of Education
  5. DOE
  6. Veterans Affairs
  7. NASA
  8. NIH
  9. NIST
  10. NOAA
  11. Department of Agriculture
  12. USGS
  13. USPTO

The “non-governmental partners” are:3

  1. Allen Institute
  2. AWS
  3. Anthropic - providing API access to its closed models4
  4. AMD
  5. Cerebras
  6. Databricks
  7. Datavant (what’s this?)
  8. EleutherAI - nonprofit with experience training LLMs4
  9. Google
  10. Groq - allows researchers to bring their own models for inferencing4
  11. HPE
  12. Huggingface
  13. IBM
  14. Intel
  15. Meta
  16. Microsoft
  17. MLCommons
  18. NVIDIA
  19. Omidyar Network (what’s this?)
  20. OpenAI - providing API access to its closed models4
  21. OpenMined - focus on privacy-preserving models4
  22. Palantir
  23. Regenstrief Institute
  24. SambaNova
  25. Vocareum (what’s this?)
  26. Weights & Biases

Full-scale

The specific scope of the full-scale NAIRR is being established by the CREATE AI Act5 which has bipartisan support as of September 2024. It is anticipated to be a multi-billion dollar program with funds to build cyberinfrastructure which participating agencies will receive.1

Footnotes

  1. Bill Miller’s talk at the 2024 Smoky Mountains Conference about NAIRR. ↩ ↩2

  2. National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/10/30/executive-order-on-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. Katie Antypas, The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR). ASCAC Meeting in September 2024. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  5. https://ww2.aip.org/fyi/week-of-sept-16-2024 ↩

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