Open-Source AI

Open-source artificial intelligence, as defined by the Open Source Initiative, is an AI system that is freely available to use, study, modify, and share.[1][2] This includes datasets used to train the model, its code, and its model parameters, promoting a collaborative and transparent approach to AI development so someone could create a substantially similar result.[3][4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_artificial_intelligence

• Open-source AI is a major issue in geopolitics and artificial intelligence controversies. Broadly, China favors developing open-source artificial intelligence technology, while the United States favors restricted and controlled access to the technology.[5] Examples in major companies are that the Chinese Moonshot AI globally, freely distributes its tools, whereas the American companies OpenAI and Anthropic share much less.[5] These are in part national government policy decisions, because public access to AI technology has many consequences.[5] Some United States politicians have called to restrict United States public access to Chinese AI tools.[5] The debate over what should count as 'open-source' given a range of openness among AI projects has been significant. Some large language models touted as open-sourced that are merely open weights and do not release training data and code[6][7] have been criticized as "openwashing"[8] systems that are mostly closed.[9]