AI Alliance launches Project Tapestry for open and sovereign AI

The AI Alliance has launched Project Tapestry, an open-source effort meant to support collaborative development of frontier AI models while preserving data control and sovereignty.

In an April 7 announcement, the consortium said the project is designed to let institutions, industries and countries contribute to a shared model foundation without giving up control over their own data or downstream use. The AI Alliance said the initiative will be built as a distributed, globally federated platform.

The announcement also names Yann LeCun as chief science advisor to the AI Alliance and Project Tapestry. The group said it will host a workshop in Paris on May 7 and 8 to define the project’s architecture, roadmap and model-development priorities.

The AI Alliance said its nonprofit research organization will serve as the community home for the project. The announcement positions Tapestry as a technical answer to a policy question that has been growing across governments and enterprise users: how to build capable AI systems without centralizing all data or control.

The launch is still at the proposal-and-community-building stage, but it gives the Alliance a concrete project to rally contributors around as sovereign AI becomes a more prominent theme in AI infrastructure.