Open source AI offers immense potential — but without safeguards, it risks chaos. Bianca Nobilo of IFS asks if we can harness its power without repeating Prometheus' mistake.
There's a lot of noise in the AI market at the start of 2025. But Microsoft CEO Nadella has seen it all before.
AI spend and investment isn't going to go away, says the Meta man, even if notions of trustworthy facts are...
This week - sustainability, data centers, AI and... Fresh ideas, anyone? AI agents are easy to build - or are they? Not if they aren't tied to process execution. Your whiffs include an unlikely voice in LinkedIn etiquette - yours truly.
IBM releases Granite Guardian 3.0 as part of a significant update to its line-up of LLM foundation models. It's one of the first guardrails models that can reduce both harmful content and hallucinations. It’s also fully open source with a permissive licence.
Don’t believe everything you hear about China’s attitude to the West: a key takeaway from last week’s open-source events in Hong
A White Paper from the ODI that takes a serious look at a fundamental issue for AI: no matter how many gen AI models get built, a significant part of the data used to train them will be common to most of the other gen AI models, so why not share it from a common data pool.
Linux prime mover Linus Torvalds travelled all the way to Hong Kong to explain his dislike of AI hype. We should be grateful for him.
While proprietary software vendors and Western governments now treat China with suspicion, the open source movement is embracing the world’s second largest economy – and open source contributor.
Generative AI models rely on a large pool of training data. Political heft is required to sort out questions about provenance, privacy, licensing, derivative works, and AI sweatshops.
OpenUK’s Phase Two Open Manifesto suggests raising the bar on AI openness to improve AI safety, but doing so will require confronting concerns about missing out and enabling bad actors.
OpenUK’s Phase Two Open Manifesto suggests ways to strengthen open source programs while managing costs. The focus needs to be on integrating communities rather than just spending or new offices.
OpenUK Phase Two Open Manifesto report advocates building skills in open source software. This requires learning how to engage with community as much as writing code.
