Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge The National Science Foundation (NSF) and 10 other agencies are partnering with artificial intelligence developers to fulfill part of President Joe Biden’s executive order on AI‚ launching a pilot program the administration says will democratize access to research. The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) provides access to AI models‚ computing power‚ datasets‚ software‚ and training for US-based AI researchers‚ the NSF said in a statement. Researchers can apply for access to the NAIRR pilot through its website‚ and NAIRR plans to open a second call for research proposals in the spring of this year. If they’re granted access‚ researchers can use expensive‚ processing-power-heavy services like Microsoft Azure or... Continue reading…