India, Oct. 20 -- Australian researchers have joined Project Tapestry, a global effort to build frontier AI models that harness shared knowledge while strengthening data ownership and AI sovereignty.

Monash University has become the first Australian organisation to join a pioneering international initiative established to bring together leading research and technology capabilities to develop open, trusted and sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) using a shared knowledge approach.

The Monash AI Institute has joined Project Tapestry, founded by US-based non-profit organisation The AI Alliance, guided by its Chief Science Advisor and Turing Award winner Professor Yann LeCun, who is Silver Professor at NYU's Courant Institute.

The Project ...