Meta and some other technology firms rolling out so-called open source generative artificial intelligence (AI) models are “depriving the pubic from having innovation cycles” and making a profit from ...

The latest definition aims to clarify the often contentious discussions surrounding open-source AI. It specifies four fundamental freedoms that an AI system must grant to be considered open source: ...

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 source ...

Will the OSI continue with its current AI definition path? This issue continues to be debated in both AI and open-source circles.

Per a new definition for open models, Meta's Llama 3 and Google's Gemma don't qualify, though not everyone agrees. Here's why that could put the products that use them on shaky ground. Emily is an ...

The movement toward open source AI made progress today when the Open Source Initiative released the first (OSAID). While the OSAID provides one step forward, the lack of requirements around openness ...

Open Source Initiative (OSI) chief Stefano Maffulli says Meta is “bullying” the industry on the concept of open source. The Economist more colorfully characterizes the dispute as “bare-it-all purists ...

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If a piece of software is available under a license rubber stamped as “open source” ...

Cloud and AI are the most important technologies today, and both have outstripped open source licenses. It’s time for a new open source definition. Open source pioneer Bruce Perens gets one thing ...

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

As long as Microsoft exists, there will be those who believe it’s the KGB of the open source world, secretly doing everything it can to destroy the free software movement in general and Linux in ...

Residents of hell, start checking for icicles: Microsoft has gained Open Source Initiative (OSI) approval for two of its "shared source" licenses, making it an official backer and provider of ...