The CLARIPHY proto-collaboration, including both universities and DOE laboratories, has a number of potential benefits and opportunities, including:

• a forum for developing a shared roadmap toward an AI-native research ecosystem
• a platform for enabling larger-scale efforts while integrating expertise and resources from across the community
• clear pathways to scale and transition promising R&D activities towards deployment within experiments
• a structure to develop and provide the services needed for the experiments to fully leverage evolving national infrastructure (e.g., AmSC, NAIRR) and large-scale data resources
• a means for fostering both collaboration and healthy competition through the development of shared benchmarks and the development and curation of the supporting datasets
• accessible entry points for individual university groups to engage and contribute
• a coherent framework for cross-experiment activities, enabling solutions with impact to deliver benefit to multiple experiments
• a clear structure for US engagement with international efforts, including those at CERN, and other national and regional collaborations
• a community structure for engagement with industry
• a structure for large scale workforce development activities leveraging both lab and university expertise

The initial collaboration meetings are intended to help organize and prioritize among these goals to meet the needs of the community.