Author Archives: Deb Bryant

Deb Bryant, US Policy Director Deb’s deep appreciation of open source models and culture comes out nearly two decades years of management in open source organizations – leading enterprise IT policy in state government as an early adopter of open standards and open source; building one of the world’s pioneering open-source labs at Oregon State University; conducting and publishing research and consulting to US and foreign government as a trusted advisor on adoption of open source; and more recently building and leading one of the world’s largest and most influential Open Source Program Offices (OSPO) at Red Hat for eight years. In 2010 Deb was honored with the O’Reilly Media Open Source Award in recognition of her contribution to open source communities and for her pioneering advocacy of open standards and the use of open-source software in the public sector. You can follow her on Twitter as @debbryant

OSI’s responds to NTIA on widely available AI models

In addition to joining a number of other organizations in responding to the NTIA’s Request for Comment on, OSI has provided its organizational response to the call for public comment, centering its encouragement on the societal benefits of open models and emphasizing the need to complete the development of a recognized definition of the concept of “Open Source AI” as fundamental to effective policy-making regarding Artificial Intelligence.

NTIA engages civil society on questions of open foundation models for AI, hears benefits of openness in the public interest

OSI shares key takeaways from a recent listening session of the National Telecommunications and Information Agency conducted with Civil Society organizations about the benefits and risks associated with offering wide availability of model weights and other components of open and closed foundation models.