Since its formation in 2023, TPC participation has grown to more than 900 participants from nearly 100 organizations around the world.
Over 60 of these organizations have joined TPC as member organizations, sharing the objectives of the consortium—building an open community, incubating and supporting collaborations around building large-scale AI models for science and creating a global network of resources and expertise to facilitate teaming and training the next generation of AI researchers. Member organizations also affirm TPC’s shared principles of transparency, fairness, and ethical AI practices, aligning with scientific and government guidelines such as promoting transparency, mitigating bias, ensuring safety and trustworthiness, protecting privacy, and fostering open collaboration.
At the TPC European Kick-off Workshop in Barcelona this week, TPC announced 17 new member organizations from around the world:
“Our community at Indiana University shares TPC’s commitment to creating a global network of resources and expertise to train the next generation of AI researchers,” said Professor Beth Plale, executive director of the Pervasive Technology Institute and Michael A and Laurie Burns McRobbie Bicentennial Professor of Computer Engineering. Plale looks forward to sharing TPC’s principle of fostering open collaboration, which she describes as “crucial to addressing the complex challenges of building large-scale AI models.”
Jean-Yves Berthou, director of the Inria Saclay-Île-de-France Research Centre, said, “TPC’s focus on promoting transparency, mitigating bias, ensuring trustworthiness, protecting privacy and fostering open collaboration are crucial for advancing AI for science.” Berthou said that he and his colleagues at Inria look forward to, “contributing to this mission in meaningful ways and in strong coordination with the International Post-Exascale project (inpex.science) and the French Exascale program, NumPEx (numpex.org).”
To continue to develop a shared vision and goals, particularly aimed at accelerating the use of generative AI in science and engineering, over 180 participants have convened for the European TPC Kick-off workshop, hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center this week in Barcelona, Spain. This workshop offers an opportunity for participation by the European AI, HPC, and disciplinary science research communities.
