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 of what ...

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 Initiative (OSI) recently unveiled its latest draft definition for “open source AI,” aiming to clarify the ambiguous use of the term in the fast-moving field. The move comes as some ...

AI companies that claim they are open source, such as Musk’s latest AI venture, open source the weights but not the data they are trained on nor the training process. Elon Musk’s artificial ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse Underlying every piece of software you use is source code ...