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AI for the Common Good.

Our mission is to contribute to humanity through high-impact AI research and engineering.
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Why AI2?

We're a team of engineers and researchers with diverse backgrounds collaborating to solve some of the toughest problems in AI research.

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Joanna Power

“In software engineering, there is never one answer to a problem. The best engineers are those who can come up with workable solutions as starting points and then improve them by going back and looking at new data, questioning original assumptions, and listening to ideas from other people.”

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Careers at AI2

We tackle an extraordinary set of scientific and engineering challenges in pursuit of AI for the common good.

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Projects at AI2

AllenNLP

Open Source NLP Platform

Design, evaluate, and contribute new models on our open-source PyTorch-backed NLP platfom, where you can also find state-of-the-art implementations of several important NLP models and tools.

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Aristo

Systems That Read and Reason

The Aristo Project aims to build systems that demonstrate a deep understanding of the world, integrating technologies for reading, learning, reasoning, and explanation.

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Mosaic

Common Sense for AI

The Mosaic team seeks to define, develop, and improve common sense for AI — an important, fundamental skill required to go beyond the narrow and brittle AI applications we have today.

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PRIOR

Computer Vision

The Perceptual Reasoning and Interaction Research (PRIOR) team seeks to create AI systems that can see, explore, learn, and reason about the world.

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Semantic Scholar

Semantic Literature Search

Combining NLP, data mining, and computer vision to create a rich academic search experience that helps scientists discover and understand research papers more efficiently than ever.

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AI & Fairness

Applying AI for Good

Building on AI2's expertise in NLP, computer vision, and engineering, we seek to deliver a tangible positive impact on fairness.

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Incubator

Launching AI-Powered Startups

The incubator combines AI2's world class engineering and research organization with proven business leaders to bring innovative, AI-powered ideas to life.

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Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

At AI2, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive environment within our institute, and to encourage these values in the wider research community.

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AI2 Israel

AI2 Israel

AI2 Israel is bringing people closer to information through advanced language-centered AI. Learn about our team in Tel Aviv and their research in user-friendly, cutting-edge NLP.

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