What Is Open Source AI Anyway?

AMSTERDAM — Last October, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) published its definition of what it would take for an AI model to be open source. At the time, OSI executive director Stefano Maffulli said that the definition was meant to be a conversation starter.

That’s definitely held true. Even as developers have generally taken a rather pragmatic approach to open weight models and their licenses, the OSI definition left something to be desired for many who wanted a more radical definition. That’s especially true when it comes to the data…