The Open Source Initiative (OSI) on Monday released the result of a year-long global community initiative to create a standard defining what, exactly, constitutes an open source artificial intelligence (AI) system.
The Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) v1.0, unveiled at the All Things Open 2024 conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, is described as “the first stable version” of a project to establish a set of principles that “that can recreate permissionless, pragmatic, and simplified collaboration for AI practitioners, similar to that which the Open Source Definition has done for the software ecosystem,” the OSI said in its FAQ.
Created via a co-design process involving more than 25 organizations, including leaders from commercial entities such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Intel, and Samsung, and groups including the Mozilla Foundation, Linux Foundation, the Apache Software Foundation, and the United Nations International Telecommunications Union, the document has already been endorsed by organizations worldwide.