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Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-MLCommons Association

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 1 (Friday, January 2, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Page 164]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-24169]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--MLCommons Association

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 30, 2025, pursuant to 
section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), MLCommons Association 
(``MLCommons'') filed written notifications simultaneously with the 
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing changes in 
its membership. The notifications were filed for the purpose of 
extending the Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust 
plaintiffs to actual damages under specified circumstances. 
Specifically, Terrafloww Labs, Inc., Bengaluru, REPUBLIC OF INDIA; My 
Pebble Inc., Boston, MA; NEWFW Technology Pte, Ltd, Singapore, REPUBLIC 
OF SINGAPORE; Balnc Care Pvt Ltd, Kerala, REPUBLIC OF INDIA; <a href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> 
Services LLC, Seattle, WA; Karunakar Elagandala (individual member), 
Hyderabad, REPUBLIC OF INDIA; Ieshika Chandra (individual member), 
Newark, CA; Arnold Ukagwu (individual member), Lansing, IL; Ouri 
Wolfson (individual member), Chicago, IL; Zhibin Xiao (individual 
member), Santa Clara, CA; James Garrick (individual member), 
Collierville, TN; Abi Prasanth (individual member), The Nilgiris, 
REPUBLIC OF INDIA; Aditya Manglik (individual member), Zurich, SWISS 
CONFEDERATION; Taanish Bhardwaj (individual member), Singapore, 
REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE; Shane Branch (individual member), Campbell, CA; 
Nikunj Koolar (individual member), Newark, CA; Balkrishna Yadav 
(individual member), Chino Hills, CA; Rameez Raja (individual member), 
Luton, UNITED KINGDOM; Ethan Prevuznak (individual member), Mount 
Pleasant, SC; Dhivya Nagasubramanian (individual member), Plymouth, MN; 
and Ilkin Aliyev (individual member), San Jose, CA, have been added as 
parties to this venture.
    Also, Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Province, PEOPLE'S 
REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Nettrix Information Industry Co., Ltd., Beijing, 
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; SambaNova Systems, Palo Alto, CA; 
Tenstorrent Inc, Small, Toronto, CANADA; Sapeon, Inc., Santa Clara, CA; 
Ailiverse Pte. Ltd, V, Singapore, REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE; Connect Tech 
Inc., Ontario, CANADA; Trainy Inc., Fremont, CA; Juniper Networks, 
Sunnyvale, CA; Task Aware AI, Mountain View, CA; GPTshop.ai UG 
(Limited), Ebern, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY; Decompute, Saratoga, CA; 
and FlexAI, SAS, Paris, FRENCH REPUBLIC, have withdrawn as parties to 
this venture.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the group research project. Membership in this group 
research project remains open and MLCommons intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On September 15, 2020, MLCommons filed its original notification 
pursuant to section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice 
published a notice in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of 
the Act on September 29, 2020 (85 FR 61032).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on August 5, 
2025. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on August 18, 2025 (90 FR 40083).

Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-24169 Filed 12-31-25; 8:45 am]
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