Partnership on AI — founding-members: Amazon, Facebook (Meta), Google, DeepMind, Microsoft, IBM

NoteThe source directly confirms the founding members as of September 2016: Amazon, Facebook, Google, DeepMind, Microsoft, and IBM. It also confirms that Apple joined in January 2017. The claim's list of founding members matches exactly with the source's statement about the September 28, 2016 announcement. The temporal qualifier 'as of 2016-09' is appropriate since the announcement occurred on September 28, 2016, and the additional context about Apple joining in January 2017 is also confirmed by the source.