[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 189 (Tuesday, September 29, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 61032]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-21488]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--MLCommons Association

    Notice is hereby given that, on September 15, 2020 pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), MLCommons Association filed 
written notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the 
Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties 
to MLCommons Association and (2) the nature and objectives of MLCommons 
Association. The notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking 
the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to 
actual damages under specified circumstances.
    Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the members 
of MLCommons Association are the following companies: Advanced Micro 
Devices, Inc., Markham, CANADA; Alibaba(China) Co., Ltd., Zhejiang 
Province, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; dividiti Limited, Cambridge, 
UNITED KINGDOM; Arm Limited & Its Subsidiaries, Austin, TX; Baidu USA 
LLC, Sunnyvale, CA; Cognitiviti Pty Ltd., West End, AUSTRALIA; Cerebras 
Systems, Los Altos, CA; Centaur Technology, Inc., Austin, TX; Cisco 
Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA; Cody Coleman(individual member), Stanford, 
CA; Real World Insights, LLC, San Francisco, CA; Dell Inc., Round Rock, 
TX; d-matrix Corp., Santa Clara, CA; Facebook, Menlo Park, CA; 
Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal, CANADA; Fujitsu Ltd, Kanagawa, JAPAN; 
FuriosaAI, Inc., Seoul, SOUTH KOREA; University of Toronto, Toronto, 
CANADA; Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; Gigabyte Technology Co., 
LTD., New Taipei, TAIWAN; Google LLC, Mountain View, CA; Grai Matter 
Labs, San Jose, CA; Graphcore Limited, Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM; Groq 
Inc., Mountain View, CA; Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications 
Corp., Ltd, DongGuan City, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Hewlett Packard 
Enterprise, Grenoble, FRANCE; Horizon Robotics Inc., Cupertino, CA; 
Inspur, Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Intel Corporation, Santa 
Clara, CA; MOBILINT, Inc., Seoul, SOUTH KOREA; KALRAY, Montbonnot, 
FRANCE; MediaTek, Hsinchu, TAIWAN; Microsoft, Redmond, WA; Myrtle.ai, 
Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM; Nettrix Information Industry Co., Ltd., 
Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; NVIDIA Corporation, San Jose, CA; 
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA; Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC; 
SambaNova Systems, Palo Alto, CA; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, 
Gyeonggi-do, SOUTH KOREA; Advantage Engineering, Austin, TX; Shanghai 
Enflame Technology Co., Ltd, Shanghai, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; 
Syntiant Corp., Irvine, CA; Tenstorrent Inc., Toronto, CANADA; Harvard 
University, Cambridge, MA; and Xilinx, San Jose, CA. The general areas 
of MLCommons Association's planned activity are to advance the 
scientific field of machine learning and increase the positive impact 
of machine learning and artificial intelligence on society, to engage 
in or sponsor collaborative research and development in connection with 
the measurement and validation of machine learning, to publish the 
results of the collaborative research and development projects of the 
Joint Venture and to provide other resources to the scientific 
community and the public at large with respect to machine learning, and 
to undertake those other activities which the Board of Directors may 
from time to time approve.
    Membership in MLCommons Association remains open and MLCommons 
Association intends to file additional written notifications disclosing 
all changes in membership.

Suzanne Morris,
Chief, Premerger and Division Statistics Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2020-21488 Filed 9-28-20; 8:45 am]
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