NSF Grant Sponsorship
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Diamond
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of the global technology infrastructure.
We bring together the world’s top developers, end users, and vendors and run the largest open source developer conferences. CNCF is part of the nonprofit Linux Foundation.
Build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible
The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. LF projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, and PyTorch. We focus on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration.
Turing accelerates AGI advancement by integrating human intelligence with AI to drive real-world results. We refine large-scale models, optimize AI performance, and apply AGI breakthroughs to enterprise challenges. Our platform supports enterprises with custom engineering, LLM development, and scalable AGI deployment—eliminating bottlenecks and delivering measurable outcomes.
Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo One, a fully autonomous ride-hailing service, and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases. The Waymo Driver has provided over one million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving tens of millions of miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 13+ U.S. states.
Platinum
Databricks is the data and AI company.
With the Data Intelligence Platform, Databricks democratizes insights to everyone in an organization. Built on an open lakehouse architecture, the Data Intelligence Platform provides a unified foundation for all data and governance, combined with AI models tuned to an organization’s unique characteristics. Now, anyone in an organization can benefit from automation and natural language to discover and use data like experts, and technical teams can easily build and deploy secure data and AI apps and products.
Together AI is the AI Acceleration Cloud for developers and enterprises to train, fine-tune, and run inference on generative AI models with high performance, security, and cost-efficiency. Together Inference platform supports 200+ open-source models, enabling flexible deployment and full model ownership.
Gold
Amazon Web Services, Inc. is a subsidiary of Amazon that provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to individuals, companies, and governments, on a metered, pay-as-you-go basis.
Ant Research was officially established in April 2015. It is dedicated to innovative and practical research. Aiming at the cutting-edge technology, we welcome you to join the Ant Research to promote the breakthrough of key technologies to contribute to the digital economy.
Character.AI empowers people to connect, learn and tell stories through interactive entertainment. Over 20 million people visit Character.AI every month, using our technology to supercharge their creativity and imagination. Our platform lets users engage with tens of millions of characters, enjoy unlimited conversations, and embark on infinite adventures.
At Fireworks AI, we’re building the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI applications. From real-time inference to model optimization, our platform empowers developers and enterprises to deploy, scale, and innovate with cutting-edge AI—faster and smarter than ever before.
Advancing the state of the art
Our teams advance the state of the art through research, systems engineering, and collaboration across Google. We publish hundreds of research papers each year across a wide range of domains, sharing our latest developments in order to collaboratively progress computing and science.
Since 2016, Megagon Labs brings you state-of-the-art research in the broad areas of artificial intelligence, data management, and natural language processing. Our research and innovations help fuel everyday online tools developed by the many subsidiaries of Recruit Group with the goal of improving the way we make decisions to improve our daily lives.
The PyTorch Foundation is an open-source foundation under the Linux Foundation umbrella, dedicated to advancing cutting-edge AI research and development through community-driven collaboration. As the steward of PyTorch and a growing ecosystem of projects including vLLM, DeepSpeed, FastChat, and others, the Foundation provides governance, infrastructure, and support for open-source innovation in machine learning. By fostering an inclusive and vendor-neutral environment, the PyTorch Foundation empowers researchers, developers, and organizations worldwide to contribute to and build upon state-of-the-art AI tools and frameworks.
Qualcomm relentlessly innovates to deliver intelligent computing everywhere, helping the world tackle some of its most important challenges. Our proven solutions drive transformation across major industries, and our Snapdragon® branded platforms power extraordinary consumer experiences. Building on our nearly 40-year leadership in setting industry standards and creating era-defining technology breakthroughs, we deliver leading edge AI, high-performance, low-power computing, and unrivaled connectivity. Together with our ecosystem partners, we enable next-generation digital transformation to enrich lives, improve businesses, and advance societies. At Qualcomm, we are engineering human progress.
Silver
Founded in 2000, Baidu's mission is to make the complicated world simpler through technology. Baidu is a leading AI company with a strong Internet foundation. Driven by the company’s deep learning platform PaddlePaddle and pre-trained model ERNIE with real- world applications across industries, Baidu stands at the forefront of the industry, achieving end-to-end optimization.
Lambda is the #1 GPU Cloud for AI teams training, fine-tuning and inferencing AI models, where engineers can easily, securely and affordably build, test and deploy AI products at scale. Lambda’s product portfolio spans from on-prem GPU hardware to hosted GPUs in public and private Clouds, servicing government, researchers, startups and Enterprises world-wide.
PDT Partners works on developing quantitative models to identify market inefficiencies and predict market movements. Once a model has been rigorously researched and tested, we deploy it on our automated trading systems to trade in electronic markets. PDT is at its heart driven by scientific principles and a compassionate culture.
A global investment and technology development firm