ABOUT
NSF AIVO

The Nexus Point for the
National AI Institutes

(2020 – PRESENT)

Our Journey
2020
2020Foundation

NSF Launches National AI Research Institutes - The National Science Foundation announces the first wave of National AI Research Institutes, establishing a new era of coordinated AI research across the United States.

2021
2021Organization

AIVO Established - The AI Institutes Virtual Organization is formed to connect and coordinate the growing network of National AI Research Institutes.

2022
2022Growth

Expanded Network - Additional institutes join the network, bringing diverse expertise in areas from agriculture to healthcare to climate science.

2023
2023Collaboration

Cross-Institute Collaboration - AIVO launches new programs to facilitate research collaboration, shared resources, and knowledge exchange across all institutes.

2024
2024Milestone

29 Institutes Strong - The network grows to 29 National AI Research Institutes, representing the largest coordinated investment in AI research in American history.

Director's Letter

The 29 National AI Research Institutes in the U.S. represent one of the most ambitious investments in AI this country has made. Extraordinary research is happening within each one.

AIVO exists to help that research go further: a program-level hub that connects and convenes institute leaders, enables collaboration across university walls, amplifies breakthroughs to the policymakers and public who need to understand them, engages the public, and builds the shared infrastructure that multiplies what each Institute can accomplish on its own.

The institutes within AIVO work across many disciplines to do the heavy lifting that university-based research does well: laying the foundations for beneficial AI methods and applications in the future. Take a look at what the institutes are doing by linking through to their websites. Explore the research and potential applications across the many different domains of AI institutes. Spend some time watching recordings and reading papers from the institutes. You will be capturing glimpses of the best thinking about these subjects and we are pleased to help with these connections.

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Steve Brown

Director, NSF AI Institutes Virtual Organization

Institutes Map

30 Institutes. One Mission.

NSF AIVO connects America's AI Institutes with a shared mission to advance AI for the benefit of the nation.