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 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 ...

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 Weight Definition, introduced at the AI Action Summit, bridges the gap between closed and Open Source AI for vendors who don't include training data. The Open Weight Definition is a ...

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

Opinion If you believe Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's AI large language model (LLM) Llama 3 is open source.… It's not, despite what he says. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) spells it out in the Open Source ...

Meta makes its model available to the U.S. military with a pitch that's largely about defending its "open source AI" framing.

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...