Anthony Annunziata
Director of AI Open Innovation
IBM and IBM lead for AI Alliance
Presentation Title:
Scaling Intelligence Outward
Presentation Summary:
A lot happens in a year. Open weight models are now a major pillar of the AI ecosystem and are essential to innovation, domain accuracy, and efficient and sovereign deployments of AI. Safety is an engineering and governance challenge the community is solving.
What’s next? We must scale intelligence outward.
Open weight models are just the first chapter. Instead of concentrating knowledge and capability, we need to do the opposite and empower individuals and organizations with trusted, expert agent capabilities they own and control.
This will take significant open source advancements: in data, data structures, utility-scale domain-specific models, evaluation, and in emerging protocols for communication with agents and tools.
We need to figure out how to incorporate AI agent capabilities seamlessly within both human-driven workflows and in software workflows beyond code generation.
The AI Alliance and its more than 180 members are at the forefront of driving this progress. In this talk, I will highlight several of our projects that promise to scale intelligence outward.
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 the company’s product strategy to be based on open technologies, and to 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.