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January 30, 2025

If DeepSeek wants to be a real disruptor, it should go much further on data transparency

Open Data Initiative

While there are multiple claims to DeepSeek’s ‘open source’ AI model, in reality it is not open source. While both the model weights and the model architecture were shared in a technical paper, neither the code nor the training or evaluation data were shared openly. An analyst for the Open Source Initiative also confirmed that Deepseek is not Open Source AI and doesn’t meet the requirements of the Open Source AI definition. It joins other models which claim to be open source, but score poorly on data transparency.

January 29, 2025

Making Good on the Promise of Open Source AI

The New Stack

The Open Source Initiative, after years of planning, in October 2024 introduced its initial definition of open source AI, which addresses four different kinds of data and requires those building and sponsoring AI technology to share what data they can as well as the model’s parameters and the source code used to train and run the system.

January 28, 2025

The Biggest Winner In The DeepSeek Disruption Story Is Open Source AI

Forbes

Open-source AI, according to the Open Source Initiative, is “an AI system made available under terms and in a way that grants the freedom to use the system for any purpose and without having to ask for permission, study how the system works and inspect its components, modify the system for any purpose, including to change its output, share the system for others to use with or without modifications, for any purpose.”

January 13, 2025

Open source trends for 2025 and beyond

InfoWorld

While debates about the definition of Open Source AI continue, with the Open Source Initiative (OSI) recently publishing its first draft, this ambiguity hasn’t slowed the adoption of modern AI models.

December 17, 2024

For the sake of our digital future, open source must win

Mozilla Blog

Mozilla is actively working for more open source standards and community. We explored the progress the industry has made in our Trustworthy AI Report and partnered with others to call for standards ahead of the Open Source Initiative (OSI)’s creation of the first Open Source AI definition.