Open Source Initiative Executive Director Duane O'Brien told a UN Digital Cooperation Day panel on September 21 that common definitions are needed for Open Source AI policy, citing the OSI's Open Sour…
A census of 16 model releases from nine publishers found that 14 of 16 have downloadable weights, only seven carry a licence on the Open Source Initiative's published list, and just one — NVIDIA's Nem…
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) marked Linux's 35th anniversary in its September 2026 members newsletter while announcing it is working with the Mozilla Foundation, the Digital Public Goods Alliance,…
The Open Source Initiative is using the current open-weight AI debate to argue that open-weight models grant only partial software freedoms, while true Open Source AI — which also releases training co…
The Open Source Initiative joined the Open Forum for AI (OFAI) in supporting calls for the U.S. to develop more open models, arguing that open models promote competition in AI through local control an…
The Open Source Initiative's Open Source AI Definition (OSAID 1.0) is under dispute because it requires model parameters including weights to be released under OSI-approved terms but does not mandate …
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) will host its State of the Source track on October 20, the second day of All Things Open 2026, which runs October 19–20 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The full-day track …
Meta released its 30B-parameter Muse Glimmer model under the Apache 2.0 license, a shift from the Llama Community License that removes restrictions on monthly active users, competition with Meta produ…
The Linux Foundation has submitted its Open Model, Data, and Weights license (OpenMDW-1.1) to the Open Source Initiative for review and potential approval as an AI open-source license, aiming to addre…
The Linux Foundation's Mike Dolan has submitted the OpenMDW (Open Model, Data, and Weights) license to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval, aiming to clarify licensing for the distribution o…
Most AI models marketed as 'open' are open-weight rather than open-source, and the deciding factor is the licence, according to the Open Source Initiative's OSAID 1.0 standard. Open-weight models like…
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Executive Director Duane O'Brien warned that Washington's potential trade block-lists and executive orders targeting Open Weights and Open Source AI would harm startups an…
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) reported that the European Union has passed two milestones in implementing its Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and AI Act, with the European Commission publishing guidance …
A Vetted Consumer analysis of 27 recent AI models found that 13 ship under Apache 2.0 and 7 under MIT, while the remaining 7 use five custom licenses with varying restrictions, including revenue thres…
A developer built Awesome Open GEO, a curated list of 62 open-source tools for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), requiring all entries to be free to run and OSI-licensed. The list excludes popular…
A coalition of technology companies published a letter defending open-weight AI models, urging the US government to avoid premature restrictions on downloadable models, four days after an Axios report…
The open-weight AI ecosystem is following the same trajectory as Kubernetes did in the container wars, according to Tobi Knaup, co-founder of Mesosphere. He argues that open-weight models like Llama, …
The White House is weighing restrictions on American access to open weight AI models, particularly those from Chinese labs, including trade block-lists, security warnings, and a possible executive ord…
Developer launches Trace Commons, a community effort to collect coding-agent sessions from tools like Claude Code and Codex under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, aiming to create an open d…
The open source movement faces a growing backlash as projects erect barriers against AI-assisted contributions, threatening the founding vision of universal access to software modification. Critics ar…