Department of Justice
Antitrust Division
Notice is hereby given that, on July 2, 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, Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc., Morrisville, NC; Persimmons, Inc., Milpitas, CA; Crusoe, Denver, CO; XSKY Technology Co, Ltd., Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Flower Labs, Hamburg, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY; TuringData Pte Ltd, Singapore, REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE; VSORA, Meudon la Foret, FRENCH REPUBLIC; Ampere Computing, Santa Clara, CA; Association for Long Term Existence and Resilience (ALTER), Rehovot, STATE OF ISRAEL; Gimlet Labs Inc, San Francisco, CA; Inspur Data, Shandong, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; UBIX Technology Co. Ltd, Shenzhen, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Yantrion, San Francisco, CA; Simulate AI, Miami Beach, FL; Zettalane, Santa Clara, CA; Kini AI, Lagos, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA; Suzhou Zishan Longlin Information Technology Co Ltd, Suzhou, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Beijing Yanrong Technology Co., Ltd, Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; HolmesAI Limited, Hong Kong, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; Sree Bhargavi Balija, (individual member), Columbia, MO; Zhen Xie, (individual member), Vestal, NY; Hilmar Lapp, (individual member), Durham, NC; Guthrie Gintzler, (individual member), Pittsburgh, PA; Corey Hudson, (individual member), Springfield, MO; Eremey Valetov, (individual member), Houston, TX; Aryan Mehta, (individual member), Saskatoon, CANADA; Satheesh Babu Soundararajan, (individual member), San Ramon, CA; Loïc Guibert, (individual member), Fribourg, SWISS CONFEDERATION; Michaal Hsu, (individual member), Washington, DC; Vinh Nguyen, (individual member), Washington, DC; Tejadhith Sankar, (individual member), Namakkal, REPUBLIC OF INDIA; Sai Karthik Reddy Koralla, (individual member), Atlanta, GA; Xiaoyang Li, (individual member), New York, NY; Sudhakar Sundaresan, (individual member), Plymouth, MN; InWoo Hwang, (individual member), Seoul, REPUBLIC OF KOREA have been added as parties to this venture.
Also, Ingrasys Technology Inc., Toayuan City, REPUBLIC OF CHINA (TAIWAN); and Verda, Helsinki, REPUBLIC OF FINLAND have withdrawn as parties to this venture.
In addition, Pure Storage has changed its name to Everpure, Santa Clara, CA.
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 April 15, 2026. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on July 22, 2026 (91 FR 46160).
Suzanne Morris,
Deputy Director Civil Enforcement Operations, Antitrust Division.