Get Involved
We invite you to join the MLCommons community and our shared mission to make AI better for everyone.
Membership
MLCommons is the world leader in building benchmarks for AI. We are an open engineering consortium with a mission to make AI better for everyone through benchmarks and data. In collaboration with our 125+ global technology providers, academics, and researcher members, we focus on collaborative engineering work that builds tools for the entire AI industry through benchmarks and metrics, public datasets, and measurements for AI risk and reliability.
How to become a member
MLCommons is a community-driven and member-funded organization with Members and Affiliates from across the globe. As an open engineering consortium, Member or Affiliate status is available on a non-discriminatory basis to all organizations, corporations, academic researchers, nonprofits, government organizations, and individuals.
We welcome academics, individuals and small startups as non-paying members.
If your organization is a member
If your organization is already a Member and you wish to join a working group, then simply fill out our working group subscription subscription form using your organizational email address, and indicate your areas of interest. You will be guided to our Contributor License Agreement (CLA) as a next step.
If you organization is not a member
If you are interested in becoming an MLCommons Member and are not yet part of a member organization, email us at:
Become an Affiliate
Any person or organization can become an MLCommons Affiliate member, which offers the right to participate in MLCommons activities as prescribed in the MLCommons Affiliate and Working Group policy. Affiliates have access to open working groups, mailing lists, events, and benchmark files as silent participants. Affiliates are not allowed to participate in MLCommons benchmarks and are excluded from all closed activities. If you or your organization is interested in becoming an Affiliate, email us at:
BIS-listed entities may join MLCommons as members, but are only allowed to participate as affiliates.
Member Benefits
- Participation in building MLCommons benchmarks through our working groups, including MLPerf Training and Inference, AI Risk and Reliability, Datasets, Storage, and Research groups.
- A voice in the direction of MLCommons. A paid membership offers voting rights and eligibility to run for and vote in MLCommons elections.
- Paid membership gives you the opportunity to lead a working group as a working group chair, and co-marketing support for MLPerf results, AI Risk & Reliability, and other MLCommons related activities.
- Paid MLCommons member organizations in the Large and Small Membership categories are also given logo sponsorship placement on the MLCommons website.
Membership levels
General Member, Large Organization
500+ FT employees
- Major contributions to benchmark or Infra components and future roadmap input
- Full access to participate in all working groups
- Working group chair opportunities
- Benchmark submissions and public results
- Logo sponsorship recognition on MLCommons website
- Voting rights
$75,000/year + $75,000 initiation fee
General Member, Small Organization
10-499 FT employees
- Major contributions to benchmark or Infra components and future roadmap input
- Full access to participate in all working groups
- Working group chair opportunities
- Benchmark submissions and public results
- Logo sponsorship recognition on MLCommons website
- Voting rights
$15,000/year +$15,000 one-time initiation fee
Observer Member, Very Small Organization
1-9 FT employees
- Contributions to benchmark or Infra components
- Participation in Open working groups
- Working group chair opportunities
- Benchmark submissions and public results
Free*
Observer Individual
INDIVIDUAL
- Participate in all working groups
- Working group chair opportunities
Free
General Member Academic
Primary position is faculty at a non-profit academic institution
- Major contributions to benchmark or Infra components and future roadmap input
- Co-lead a paper, workshop, research challenge
- Participate in all working groups
- Working group chair opportunities
- Advisory board service
- Voting rights
Free**
*Company size verification required yearly.
**Academics must apply as an individual. Academic benefits are granted after 6 months as an individual member.
Join a Working Group
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Fill out our subscription form with your organizational email to join MLCommons working groups, contribute code on GitHub, and gain access to members-only MLCommons Discord channels. You can also subscribe to the MLCommons newsletter and news updates.
02
Associate a Google account with your organizational email address (do not create a new Gmail account) to access meetings and documents. You can skip this step if your email address is already provided by Google Workspace.
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Some working groups require Membership to participate. If your organization is already a Member, you can join any working group. Membership is free for academics and individuals. To become an MLCommons Member contact [email protected].
MLCommons Calendar
The MLCommons calendar includes dates for all MLCommons activities, including submission dates for all MLCommons benchmarks, working group meetings and public community events.
Community Events
We hold regular community events that are open to both members and non-members. Join us at our next event to learn more about what’s happening at MLCommons and network with fellow community members.
| Community Meeting Date | Location | Slides |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, June 27, 2024 | Google, Mountain View | slides |
| Thursday, November 30, 2023 | Intel, Santa Clara | slides |
| Thursday, September 21, 2023 | Community Happy Hour | N/A |
| Thursday, July 20, 2023 | AMD, Santa Clara | slides |
| Thursday, April 20, 2023 | VMWare, Palo Alto | slides |
| Thursday, December 8, 2022 | Intel, Santa Clara | slides |
| Thursday, September 22, 2022 | Nutanix, San Jose | slides |
| Thursday, July 14, 2022 | NVIDIA, Santa Clara | slides |
| Thursday, April 21, 2022 | Virtual | slides |
| Thursday, December 9, 2021 | Virtual | slides |
| Thursday, September 30, 2021 | Virtual | slides |
| Thursday, July 15, 2021 | Virtual | slides |
| Thursday, April 22, 2021 | Virtual | slides |
| Thursday, December 17, 2020 | Virtual | slides |
| Thursday, May 28, 2020 | Virtual | slides |
| Thursday, March 12, 2020 | Virtual | slides |
| Thursday, December 12, 2019 | Facebook, Menlo Park | slides |
| Thursday, October 10, 2019 | Samsung, San Jose | slides |
| Thursday, August 8, 2019 | Cadence, San Jose | slides |
| Thursday, June 6, 2019 | AMD, Santa Clara | slides |
| Thursday, April 4, 2019 | Synopsys, San Jose | slides |
| Thursday, February 14, 2019 | Xilinx, San Jose | slides |
