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LF AI & Data Foundation

Open-source steward

Hosted project of The Linux Foundation

The LF AI & Data Foundation is a directed fund of The Linux Foundation that raises and spends funds to support open-source artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data projects. Its hosted projects include ONNX, which LF AI announced as a graduate-level project in November 2019.3145

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Key facts

Ownership
Foundation-hosted
Legal form
Directed fund of The Linux Foundation3
Headquarters
Not documented
Founded
Unknown

What is and isn’t public

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Hosts open-source AI and data projects. ONNX, for example, kept its existing open-source license when it joined LF AI in 2019 and is published under the Apache License 2.0.156

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Notable documented facts

  • Under its charter (effective October 6, 2020), a Governing Board manages the directed fund and a Technical Advisory Council coordinates among the technical projects; each technical project is governed by its own charter. Charter amendments need a two-thirds vote of the Governing Board and approval by The Linux Foundation.32
  • The charter requires trademarks relating to the fund or its technical projects to be held by LF Projects, LLC.3

U.S. eligibility

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Eligible · basis: Documented U.S. control

The LF AI & Data Foundation is a directed fund of The Linux Foundation and operates under the guidance of its own Governing Board and The Linux Foundation; charter amendments require The Linux Foundation's approval. The Linux Foundation is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit whose legal postal address is in San Francisco, California. No separate headquarters is documented for the fund.378

Assessed Sep 29, 2026

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Sources

  1. 1.
    About | LF AI & Data (external site: lfaidata.foundation)

    LF AI & Data Foundation · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  2. 2.
    Governance Documents | LF AI & Data (external site: lfaidata.foundation)

    LF AI & Data Foundation · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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  4. 4.
    ONNX | LF AI & Data (external site: lfaidata.foundation)

    LF AI & Data Foundation · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  5. 5.
    LF AI Welcomes ONNX, Ecosystem for Interoperable AI Models, as Graduate Project (external site: lfaidata.foundation)

    LF AI Foundation · Announcement · published Nov 14, 2019 · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  6. 6.
    onnx/onnx LICENSE (external site: raw.githubusercontent.com)

    ONNX Project Contributors · License · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  7. 7.
    About the Linux Foundation (external site: linuxfoundation.org)

    Linux Foundation · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

  8. 8.
    Privacy Policy | Linux Foundation (external site: linuxfoundation.org)

    Linux Foundation · Official page · accessed Sep 29, 2026

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