Highlights from our participation at Open Source Congress 2024
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) proudly participated in the Open Source Congress 2024, held from August 25-27 in Beijing, China. This event was a gathering for key individuals in the Open Source nonprofit community, aiming to foster collaboration, innovation, and strategic development within the ecosystem. Here are some highlights from OSI’s participation at the event.
OSI at the United Nations OSPOs for Good
Earlier this month the Open Source Initiative participated in the “OSPOs for Good” event promoted by the United Nations in NYC.
The Open Source Initiative joins CMU in launching Open Forum for AI: A human-centered approach to AI development
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is pleased to share that we are joining the founding team of Open Forum for AI (OFAI), an initiative designed by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)…
Contributions of Open Source to AI: a panel discussion at CPDP-ai conference
Discussing the challenges of Open Source AI when it comes to data, hardware, big tech companies and government regulations as a panelist at the CPDP-ai conference in Brussels.
Exploring openness in AI: Insights from the Columbia Convening
A framework to discuss openness and AI published by Columbia Institute of Global Politics and Mozilla, in collaboration with OSI and leading AI scholars and practitioners.
CRA standards request draft published
The European Commission recently published a public draft of the standards request associated with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). For those who depend on incorporating or creating Open Source software, there is an encouraging new development found here. For the first time in a European standards request, there is an express requirement to respect the needs of Open Source developers and users.
Openly Shared: CRA’s Open goes beyond the OSD
The definition of “open source” in the most recent version (article 2(48)) of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) goes beyond the Open Source Definition (OSD) managed by OSI.
Compelling responses to NTIA’s AI Open Model Weights RFC
The OSI has compiled a compelling list of responses from nonprofit organizations and companies to NTIA’s AI Open Model Weights RFC.
OSI participates in Columbia Convening on openness and AI; first readouts available
Stefano Maffulli participates in collaboration on building a framework for openness in AI with Mozilla and the Columbia Institute of Global Politics with technical and policy memorandums being released.
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.
Letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Raimondo urging protection of openness and transparency in AI
The OSI contributed, along with other members of civil society and academia, to a letter drafted by Mozilla and the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) asking the White House and Congress to exercise great caution when considering whether and how to regulate the publication of open models.
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.
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