Leela Zero is a community research in AI applied to game Go. Go is a big deal in Japan, China and Korea.
LeelaChessZero is a fork of the above / younger sibling.
There is a bunch of very smart people in both projects. We could count on strong synergy effect, if we could get into a relationship. As anti-cheating guard is not as easy as in other projects, implementation would be a step forward in distributed computing area and AI on BOINC platform. If you dig deeper, these projects have much more significance than appears on the surface.
The other idea I have for some time (and above just comes into that picture) is AI / machine learning on BOINC. Machine learning community is huge and has enormous hardware resources. Thus they could be both donors and receptors of compute resources. But other projects (Golem, Hadron) are working hard to get them on board - competition is strong.