The Open Source Initiative (OSI), self-proclaimed steward of the open source definition, the most widely used standard for open-source software, announced an update to what constitutes an “open ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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

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 ...

AI is in balance. The use of open source technologies is impacting the development of artificial intelligence in somewhere near equal (of not greater) measure than closed source proprietary ...

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 ...

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 ...