The Consortium for the Advancement of Materials Science with AI (CAMSAI) is an open, vendor-neutral community devoted to advancing materials science with AI. We develop and sustain open-source software, open data standards, and open educational material, and convene the people who build and use them across national laboratories, universities, industry, and independent practice.
CAMSAI participates in the AI Alliance community.
CAMSAI's charter, decision rules, steering roster, and trademark policy live in one place:
Decisions are made in the open. Routine matters carry by lazy consensus; constitutional changes and project intake require a recorded vote of the Steering Committee, which has seven seats allocated by constituency — a government laboratory, an academic institution, a startup, a cloud infrastructure provider, an HPC hardware provider, an AI models provider, and an independent practitioner — so that no single organization or sector controls the consortium.
Organizations that commit substantial resources, and constituencies that do not hold a seat, have a standing non-voting channel to the Steering Committee through the Advisory Council. Support is acknowledged publicly and confers no governance rights; that separation is deliberate.
Governance documents are versioned by date tag, and each version is published as a consolidated PDF under releases.
CAMSAI is not yet incorporated. It has no separate legal personality and cannot enter contracts, hold property, or receive funds in its own name. See the Charter, section 11, which also says what happens if that is still true at the end of 2027.
| Project | What it is |
|---|---|
| standards | Schemas, validation tools, and data models for materials science and AI research |
| notebooks | Interactive notebooks demonstrating CAMSAI tools and workflows |
| jupyterlite | A browser-based environment for running CAMSAI notebooks without local setup |
| actions | Shared continuous-integration workflows for CAMSAI repositories |
An AI-native codebase for materials science is incubating for public release later in 2026.
Contributions are welcome from anyone. Each repository documents how to build it and what it expects from a change; the terms that apply across all of them are:
- Code is released under the Apache License 2.0; documents, standards, and educational material under CC BY 4.0.
- Contributions are accepted under the
Developer Certificate of Origin —
sign off your commits with
git commit -s. There is no contributor license agreement. - All CAMSAI spaces are governed by our Code of Conduct.
To propose something that spans the consortium rather than a single project — a new project, a change to how we govern ourselves — open a pull request or an issue against camsai/governance.
