Favorite Summer is normally quiet in Brussels, but this year might just be the exception: over the last month, the EU has passed two milestones in implementing its Cyber Resilience (CRA) and AI acts. The OSI has been engaged with European policymakers over the past two years to ensure those laws don’t inadvertently harm Open…
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The AI Era Arcs Toward Openness
Favorite A surge of openness in AI has defined 2026. Amid calls for both caution and support, prevailing trends point to a future in which models are built and released openly. Recent research offers new insight into the adoption of open AI systems, who benefits, and the role of Open Source across the AI technology…
Openness Made All of This Possible
Favorite This week’s reporting out of Washington (See: “Top American AI Execs Sound Alarm on Chinese Models”, The Wall Street Journal, July 20) describes an administration weighing whether to restrict American access to open weight AI models, particularly the ones released by labs in China. The measures reportedly under discussion include trade block-lists, security warnings,…
Open Source AI Fellowship Announced at UN Open Source Week
Favorite The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is pleased to announce the launch of the Open Source AI Fellowship at UN Open Source Week. The fellowship will support OSI’s work to advance understanding, measure trends, engage in policy, and build consensus around what it means for an AI system to be labeled “Open Source.” Through this…
Open Source Initiative Helps G7 Deliver Vision On AI Openness
Favorite On May 29, 2026 in Paris, G7 Digital and Technology ministers approved a “Vision on AI openness opportunities and shared language”. The vision, which sets out terminology around AI openness, is the result of a three-month partnership between the OSI and the G7. OSI Executive Director, Duane O’Brien (pictured on the monitor), presents a…
Open Source Without Borders: Reflections from COSCon’25
Favorite Last week, I had the honor of delivering the opening keynote at the China Open Source Conference (COSCon’25) in Beijing, as Kaiyuanshe celebrated its 10th anniversary. Standing before a community that this year is witnessing a “Deepseek moment” driven by open innovation was both humbling and inspiring. The conference offered rich opportunities for engagement:…
DPGA’s Annual Members Meeting: Advancing Open Source & DPGs for the Public Good
Favorite This past month, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) participated in the Digital Public Goods Alliance’s fourth Annual Members Meeting (AMM) in Brasília, an energizing gathering hosted in partnership with the Government of Brazil. The event marked the first AMM held in South America and brought together more than a hundred representatives from governments, multilateral…
OFA Symposium 2025 and the Launch of the Open Technology Research Network (OTRN)
Favorite The OpenForum Academy Symposium 2025 organized by OpenForum Europe (OFE) brought together researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and open technology leaders for two days of deep inquiry into how open technologies shape our economies, infrastructures, and societies. Hosted at FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this year’s theme “Open Technology Impact in Uncertain Times”…
Open letter: Harnessing open source AI to advance digital sovereignty
Favorite November 13, 2025 Dear President Macron,Dear Chancellor Merz,Dear President von der Leyen, Europe is at a crossroads. The Summit on European Digital Sovereignty marks an important milestone for the EU and its member states in aligning on a shared strategy for achieving real and lasting European digital sovereignty. As the EU pursues the goal…
State of the Source at ATO 2025: State of the “Open” AI
Favorite In October, the OSI hosted the State of the Source Track at All Things Open designed to connect developers with the big policy conversations shaping our ecosystem. Gabriel Toscano from Duke University led the State of the “Open” AI session, unpacking what it really means when models call themselves open. State of the “Open”…