AI2 Secures $152M From NSF and NVIDIA to Build Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure

Deal Summary

The Allen Institute for AI Research (AI2) received $152 million in combined funding—$75M from the National Science Foundation and $77M from NVIDIA—to support the Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI) project, aiming to build a national-level open AI ecosystem and infrastructure. The grant will fund development and release of open models and datasets to accelerate AI research.