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 Open Source AI Definition will provide a reference for determining whether an AI system is truly open source AI, OSI said. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) on Monday released the result of a ...

An amendment to the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) has changed the widely accepted definition of open source software, which has the potential to lead to confusion across the open source community.

As open source software (OSS) is continually utilized across industries, the legal landscape surrounding its use has grown ...

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 ...

Open-source and artificial intelligence (AI) developers and leaders agree that open-source AI is important. Despite the best efforts of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to create an open-source AI ...

The answer could determine who gets to shape the future of the technology. Suddenly, “open source” is the latest buzzword in AI circles. Meta has pledged to create open-source artificial general ...

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 ...

John Mark Walker has offered up an excellent analysis of "open source" (the descriptor, that is). I've been struggling with this for some time (as has Gartner, more recently), and appreciate John Mark ...

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 ...

An open-source platform developed by researchers in Nikolaus Rajewsky's lab at the Max Delbrück Center creates molecular maps from patient tissue samples with subcellular precision, enabling detailed ...