When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, enterprises are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to drive innovation. However, the conversation around AI strategy varies depending on where an ...

The open-source shift has been spearheaded by AI startup DeepSeek, whose R1 model released earlier this year challenged American tech dominance. Chinese AI companies from big players such as Baidu to ...

Development is a creative process. Experience with hackathons and open-source solutions, for example, shows that input from many engineers accelerates progress and makes the final product better.

As the generative AI boom continues, startups building business models around the tech are beginning to delineate along two clear lines. Some, convinced that a proprietary and closed source approach ...

As tech giants declare their AI releases open — and even put the word in their names — the once insider term “open source” has burst into the modern zeitgeist. During this precarious time in which one ...

Every day, it seems, a new large language model (LLM) is announced with breathless commentary — from both its creators and academics — on its extraordinary abilities to respond to human prompts. It ...

There’s finally an “official” definition of open source AI. The Open Source Initiative (OSI), a long-running institution aiming to define and “steward” all things open source, today released version 1 ...

Software freedom. User freedom. Why do we have to choose? Licensing hasn’t kept pace with the reality of software in the cloud and AI. Folks, we have an open source problem. And, no, it’s not the ...