Last Tuesday, Meta and IBM launched an AI Alliance in order to promote “open innovation and open science” AI development. The Alliance’s members notably include Dell Technologies, Sony, AMD, Intel, Oracle, CERN, NASA, Cornell University, Dartmouth, Hugging Face, Imperial College London, the National Science Foundation, and others. Its members notably do not include Microsoft, Google, or OpenAI. Which raises the question: just how impactful will this new alliance really be?