Open for membership
Platinum · Gold · Silver · Start-up & SMB — applications open · DC event, Fall 2026: “The Role of Open Source and Open Science in US AI Model Leadership”
501(c)(6) · Industry association
A vibrant, competitive,
open AI industry.
An industry association ensuring a healthy, competitive AI industry — fee-based membership supporting open source AI advocacy, standards, and research.
Global Leadership Reception · Paris · 2025
Who we are
Who
we are
Industry has an important and essential role in ensuring AI is successfully developed and deployed. The AI Alliance Association exists to ensure a vibrant, competitive AI industry built on open innovation — one that enables broad economic growth and opportunity for all.
The other side is well-organized and well-funded, and there is a major threat that regulation could significantly block open source AI models. We intend to meet it.
Member gathering · AI Alliance · Paris
200+ organizations in the AI Alliance Community · 501(c)(3)
The Association is a separate 501(c)(6) entity, now recruiting its founding members from across the Community.
IBMMetaHugging FaceServiceNowSony GroupIntelAMDOracleDellRed Hat
What we do
Three areas of focus.
The AI Alliance has created a 501(c)(6) trade association to independently and assertively advocate for and support open source AI with industry and government.
01
Policy
Scaling a significant policy effort to help build support for an open AI ecosystem.
02
Industry Advocacy
Scaling advocacy with our corporate partners to build a larger open market.
03
Tapestry Consortium
Bringing researchers, sovereign model developers, data providers and infrastructure owners together to support Project Tapestry.
Policy and advocacy plans
What the dues fund.
Four workstreams, running through 2026 and 2027.
Public Awareness
Launch a coordinated earned-media, expert-voice, and public-sign-on campaign.
Publication
Write and publish targeted, substantive explainers addressing key topics.
Education
Deliver targeted education to Congress, the administration, and relevant agencies.
AI Policy Framework
A modern equivalent to the internet-era “Framework for Global Electronic Commerce.”
Membership · Tier 1
Fee-based membership benefits.
Membership dues fund open source AI policy, advocacy, and industry programs.
Platinum
Named anchor sponsor
Policy steering committee seat
Supported projects
Working group leads
Gold
Named logo sponsor for all events
Vote for policy committee
Supported project
Working group leads
Silver
Baseline benefits: large companies (more than 100 people)
Start-up / SMB
Baseline benefits: startups, SMBs, industry-aligned non-profits
Baseline — every tier
Workgroups · amplification · logo placement · publishing · event attendance.
Tapestry
LOI
Contact us about joining Tapestry. Seeking model builders, compute, and related partners to support.
Dues fund policy and advocacy. The portion allocable to lobbying is not deductible as a business expense — IRC §162(e).
Project Tapestry participation is a separate LOI track, not a membership tier.
Membership enquiries — Kaushik Bhatta (KB), kbhatta@thealliance.ai
Project support · Tier 2
Supported and Core.
Association members fund and champion projects across the Alliance — with project leaders staying in the lead. Both tiers include customers and use cases, marketing for adoption, and public education and advocacy.
Tier A
Supported
Member-governed.
Governed by an AI Alliance member with specific support from us — the project stays in the member’s control while receiving targeted assistance.
Tier B
Core
Alliance-governed, with project leadership inside our program.
Lives in the AI Alliance GitHub organization with full infrastructure support.
Project infrastructure — GitHub, Hugging Face
Compute resources
Funding & fundraising
Community growth & management
Licensing & legal
Security & safety
Apply to bring a project in →
2026 campaign
Building a fully open source sovereign AI foundation.
AI Impact Summit · Delhi · 2026
+$100M
Funding for open AI data, models, and agents
10K
GPU-years of in-kind infrastructure
500
Organizations contributing to open source AI
10K
Contributors building the future
250K
Network engaged across the ecosystem
Unified targets across the AI Alliance Community 501(c)(3) and the AI Alliance Association 501(c)(6).
Join us
Shape the future of open source AI.
Join the AI Alliance Association to support industry-focused projects, help set standards, and shape the policy environment for open source AI.