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= " A movement advocating for transparent, modifiable, and democratically governed artificial intelligence systems, rooted in the ethos of digital commons."
Characteristics
Model Openness
Releases include weights (open-weight), training data, and code (e.g., Mistral AI, LLaMA 2).
Contrasts with "open API" models (e.g., OpenAI) that hide core infrastructure.
Governance
Hybrid licenses (e.g., CreativeML Open RAIL-M) impose ethical use clauses.
Community-driven oversight (e.g., EleutherAI, LAION).
Ecosystem
Tools for federated training (Flower), ethical datasets (The Stack), and local deployment (Ollama).
Timeline
Timeline of Open Source AI, via DeepSeek:
==2000–2010: Pre-Open AI Foundations
2001: GNU Free Documentation License – Early model for open knowledge sharing, later influencing AI licenses.
2007: Launch of Apache Mahout – Open-source machine learning library, emphasizing collaborative development.
2011–2019: Open AI Emerges
2015: TensorFlow released by Google (open-source, but with corporate control).
2019: EleutherAI forms – Grassroots collective building open LLMs (e.g., GPT-Neo).
2020–2022: Community-Led Models
2020: BigScience (France) – Hosts BLOOM, the first multilingual open LLM
2021: LAION releases OpenCLIP – Open dataset for image-text models, critical for Stable Diffusion.
2022: CreativeML Open RAIL-M License – Ethical use clauses for open models (used by Stable Diffusion).
2023: Corporate Co-optation & Backlash
March: Meta releases LLaMA 1 ("open" but with restrictions).
June: French Mistral AI founded – Advocates for open-weight models in EU policy
July: LLaMA 2 released – Sparks debate over "open-washing"
2024: Policy Battles & Commons Alternatives
January: EU AI Act amendments target open-source exemptions (French NGOs lobby for commons protections).
April: Mistral 7B – French model outperforms proprietary alternatives, fueling sovereignty debates.
June: Open Source AI Summit (Paris) – Co-organized by La Quadrature du Net
Examples
- Mistral AI French startup lobbying for EU-wide open-weight AI standards. https://mistral.ai
- Pythia Transparent LLM by EleutherAI, with documented training data. https://eleuther.ai
- OpenRAIL Licenses Ethical use licenses for AI, co-designed by civil society. https://www.licenses.ai