The Open Source AI Definition Is Out

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The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has officially released version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) on Oct. 28 at the 2024 All Things Open conference this week. It’s been a long slow journey to this significant milestone in the effort to establish a clear standard for open source artificial intelligence (AI).

Open Source Definition v1.0 released

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The release of version 1.0 was announced today at All Things Open 2024, an industry conference focused on common issues of interest to the worldwide Open Source community.

What Does Open-Source AI Actually Mean? There’s Finally a Definition

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“Arriving at today’s [open source AI definition] version 1.0 was a difficult journey, filled with new challenges for the OSI community,” Open Source Initiative Executive Director Stefano Maffulli said in a statement. “Despite this delicate process, filled with differing opinions and uncharted technical frontiers—and the occasional heated exchange—the results are aligned with the expectations set out at the start of this two-year process.

We finally have an ‘official’ definition for open source AI

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The Open Source Initiative (OSI), a long-running institution aiming to define and “steward” all things open source, today released version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition (OSAID). The product of several years of collaboration with academia and industry, the OSAID is intended to offer a standard by which anyone can determine whether AI is open source — or not.