Generative artificial intelligence (AI) companies, such as Meta’s Llama or Elon Musk’s Grok, claim they are open source. But not many agree on what open source AI is. A new working definition ...

Meta-funded study touts the benefits of open source AI, but some critics say its own Llama models don’t meet open source ...

The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the artificial intelligence space, in part ...

The Open Source AI Definition specifies that, to be an open source AI, a system must fulfill four criteria derived from the Free Software Definition. The OSAID says, “[The system] must be made ...

AI models produce learned parameters (weights), whereas software is directly compiled ... and got, an open-source AI definition where not all the data needs to be open and shared.

The group's current draft (version 0.0.9) definition of open source AI emphasizes "four fundamental freedoms" reminiscent of those defining free software: giving users of the AI system permission ...

For 25 years, OSI’s definition of open-source software has been widely accepted by developers who want to build on each other’s work without fear of lawsuits or licensing traps. Now ...

Building the Open Source AI definition has been done collaboratively ... Hugging Face, Apache Software Foundation, and UN International Telecommunications Union. The OSI has held numerous ...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF ... and smell like open source but are ultimately incompatible with the open source definition. Paul was a senior TechCrunch writer based in London, who focused ...

A new working definition of what the term means for AI could change that and has just been released by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the self-appointed stewards of the term. Open source generally ...