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Anthony Annunziata

IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) is a multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, N.Y.
Director of AI Open Innovation
IBM
AI Alliance

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Open Source AI:
Status, Opportunities, and Challenges from the Enterprise Perspective

PRESENTATION SUMMARY:

Atom icon for The AI Conference 2023, a groundbreaking two-day event on AGI, LLMs, Infrastructure, Alignment, AI Startups, and Neural Architectures.Open source and open science in generative AI have advanced greatly in the past 2 years, with open capabilities now approaching parity with proprietary systems, and a flourishing researcher and developer ecosystem innovating across the stack, from new tuning methods to infrastructure optimizations to agentic application frameworks and beyond. Still, there is a lot to do: from domain-specific safety and evaluation of AI systems, to democratizing methods of tuning, to ensuring highly capable open models can be integrated and deployed efficiently in a variety of use cases and contexts. The enterprise perspective is especially illuminating, where almost all large companies have targets to adopt generative AI, but where the divide between proof of concept and production is often still large.

Brain icon for The AI Conference 2023, a groundbreaking two-day event on AGI, LLMs, Infrastructure, Alignment, AI Startups, and Neural Architectures. I’ll present a perspective on the path ahead to achieve widespread adoption of generative AI in companies and how IBM’s open source AI contributions and the AI Alliance of more than 100 leading AI technology and research organizations are enabling this path.

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About | Anthony Annunziata

Anthony leads IBM’s company-wide mission in open innovation for AI, including open-source software, open data and models, partnerships, developer relations, and community enablement. In this role, Anthony has worked across IBM to transform IBM’s product strategy to be based on open technologies and launch new IBM-led community projects in open data tooling, instruction tuning, the Granite family of foundation models, and application-enabling tooling and platform integrations for developer enablement.

Alongside this, Anthony led the creation and launch of the AI Alliance with Meta and now more than 100 leading AI technology and research organizations to support and accelerate open, safe, and trusted generative AI research and development.

Prior to this, Anthony started and led product and engineering for IBM’s AI-accelerated science platform for hybrid AI and HPC workflows. Before this, Anthony started IBM’s Quantum computing business, driving its creation and growth from concept to global leadership. Anthony started his career as a physicist researching superconductors and spintronics for advanced semiconductor-integrated devices, earned his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Yale University, and holds 105 patents.