AI Group Adds and Drops Members to Maintain Antitrust Shield
Published Date: 3/18/2025
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Summary
MLCommons Association just updated its team by adding five new members from around the world and saying goodbye to three others. This keeps their special legal protection against big antitrust lawsuits in place, so they can keep working together on cool tech projects without worrying about huge penalties. These changes were officially reported in early 2025, and the group is still open for more members to join!
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MLCommons Keeps Antitrust Protection
On February 26, 2025, MLCommons Association filed notifications to extend the National Cooperative Research and Production Act protections that limit antitrust plaintiffs to recovering actual damages under specified circumstances. The filing names five additions (SAS Multi Meta Multiverse, Vallauris, France; Secludy Inc., San Francisco, CA; Robert L'Heureux, Livermore, CA; Ishmail Guzel, Ankara, Turkey; Xuanli He, London, UK) and three withdrawals (EDGECORTIX INC., Singapore; Calvin Risk, Kloten, Switzerland; OMOIKANE A.I. Ltd., London, UK). Membership remains open and MLCommons intends to file further membership-change notifications.
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