Department of Justice
Antitrust Division
Notice is hereby given that, on April 15, 2026, 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, IBM, Durham, NC; Broadcom, Palo Alto, CA; Orrick Industries, Austin, TX; Pure Storage, Santa Clara, CA; Ekonceptas, Siauliai, REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA; Griting, Los Altos, CA; Xiaomei Mi (individual member), Manchester, UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND; Hillary Owusu (individual member), College Park, MD; Stefano Patalano (individual member), Rome, ITALIAN REPUBLIC; Yide Ran (individual member), Jersey City, NJ; Athul Suryanarayana (individual member), Sunnyvale, CA; Anna Su (individual member), New Haven, CT; Sivanesan Selvaraj (individual member), Chennai, REPUBLIC OF INDIA; Jinzhen Wang (individual member), Charlotte, NC; Nobin Sarwar (individual member), Baltimore, MD; Lukasz Szpruch (individual member), Edinburgh, UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND; Jayapriya Surendran (individual member), Los Angeles, CA; Sneha Bankar (individual member), Lynwood, WA; Otavio Rodrigues Bambans (individual member), Sao Paulo, FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL; Joe Raffa (individual member), El Dorado Hills, CA; Mariya Hendriksen (individual member), Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND; Hakjun Kim (individual member), Vijeongbu-si, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; and Bohdan Demidont (individual member), Sunny Isles Beach, FL have been added as parties to this venture.
Also, Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC; Baidu USA LLC, Sunnyvale, CA; Deci.ai, Ramat Gan, STATE OF ISRAEL; Coactive Systems Inc., San Jose, CA; Operartis LLC, Astoria, NY; and SAS Multi Meta Multiverse, Vallauris, FRENCH REPUBLIC have withdrawn as parties to this venture.
In addition, DataCrunch, has changed its name to Verda, Helsinki, REPUBLIC OF FINLAND.
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 January 29, 2026. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on March 26, 2026 (91 FR 14716).
Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.