Supporting Our Community’s Infrastructure: NeurIPS Foundation’s Donation to OpenReview

December 15 2025 Supporting Our Community’s Infrastructure: NeurIPS Foundation’s Donation to OpenReview Communications Chairs 2025 General By Foundation Board The Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation is announcing today a $500,000 donation to OpenReview , reinforcing our commitment to the infrastructure that enables rigorous scholarly publishing in machine learning and artificial intelligence. A Critical Partnership For years, OpenReview has served as the backbone of peer review for NeurIPS and numerous other premier conferences in our field. The OpenReview team have pioneered open and transparent peer review systems that support the scale and pace required by modern AI research. The platform has handled hundreds of thousands of submissions annually while maintaining double-blind review standards and facilitating meaningful scholarly exchange. This partnership has been essential to NeurIPS’s mission of fostering the exchange of research advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning through the highest ethical standards for a diverse and inclusive community. Supporting Recovery and Evolution The recent security incident affecting OpenReview and multiple conferences across our field underscored the critical importance of this infrastructure and the shared imperative to safeguard the integrity of peer review against escalating global security threats and increasingly sophisticated attempts at manipulation. The machine learning community relies on platforms like OpenReview to function effectively, and ensuring the resilience and continued strength of these providers benefits all of us. This donation is intended to help OpenReview grow its team to the required scale, strengthen security infrastructure, implement enhanced manipulation guards, and continue evolving their platform to meet the growing needs of our community. We believe that robust, well-resourced infrastructure is fundamental to the integrity and progress of scientific research in our field. A Call to Action The speed at which knowledge exchange must happen in machine learning and AI demands sophisticated tools and platforms. OpenReview represents years of development and refinement to create systems that serve our community’s unique needs. No single conference or institution can sustain such infrastructure alone. Looking Forward The machine learning community stands at an unprecedented moment of growth and impact. Maintaining the integrity and functionality of our scholarly publishing infrastructure is essential to ensuring that this growth continues to serve science and society. OpenReview and platforms like it are not peripheral to our work—they are fundamental enablers of the rapid, rigorous exchange of ideas that drives progress in our field. This donation reflects the NeurIPS Foundation’s commitment to supporting the infrastructure and organizations that make our community possible. We look forward to continuing our partnership with OpenReview and to seeing our field’s infrastructure grow stronger and more resilient in the years ahead.