The AI Institutes Virtual Organization (AIVO) is a community hub activity that connects the nation’s premier AI Research Institutes into a vibrant and impactful innovation ecosystem. The National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Institutes Program is a multi-agency and multi-sector effort implementing key objectives in the U.S. AI strategy. Each Institute is a large-scale collaborative effort involving a network of multiple funded organizations, many research professionals, and community partners working together to advance and apply AI knowledge and methods and build new platforms for AI research infrastructure and innovation. In this project, AIVO connects these individual AI Institutes into a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. AIVO does this by amplifying Institute efforts and outcomes, by enabling collaboration and connection across the boundaries of individual Institutes, and by raising public awareness of the research and impact of the AI Institutes. AIVO operates at the nexus of a broad and evolving network of stakeholders that are essential to the success of the National AI Research Institutes Program. As a community-led coordination and amplification hub for the National AI Research Institutes Program, AIVO serves the needs of federal funding agencies, the researchers and educators within the AI Institutes, partners and collaborators, and the broader public. In its “Convening” role, AIVO supports inter-Institute workshops and Special Interest Gr