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Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) Program - Advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent Ecosystems is sponsored by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for STEM Education (EDU). This program encourages proposals to the PESOSE program that focus on protocols enabling AI agent ecosystems.
The PESOSE program strengthens open-source ecosystems that produce publicly accessible, modifiable, and shareable software and hardware, models and specifications, languages and measures for security and cybersecurity of artificial intelligence (AI) models and systems, metrology, data tools, and benchmarking tools.
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Pathways to Enable Secure Open-Source Ecosystems (PESOSE) Program - Advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent Ecosystems is funded by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for STEM Education (EDU). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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