Begun, the Open Source AI Wars Have
14th September 2024
(Reminder: Yoda’s first language is Latin. The Reg is just bad at translating Latin.)
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) and its allies are getting closer to a definition of open source AI. If all goes well, Stefano Maffulli, the OSI’s executive director, expects to announce the OSI open source AI definition at All Things Open in late October. But some open source leaders already want nothing to do with it.
Let’s start with some background. Lots of companies – I’m looking at you, Meta – have been claiming that their AI models are open source. They’re not. They’re not even close.
So the OSI and a host of other companies and groups have been working on creating a comprehensive open source AI definition. After all, the OSI is the same organization that defines open source software with the Open Source Definition.