You’ve probably heard artificial intelligence models described as “open” or “closed.” These are not descriptions of the model’s personality. Large language model AIs like the one under the hood of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a 5x-founder & VC investing in AI When teams prepare large language models to operate, they have a choice: reveal the ...

Organizations embracing open source AI models are redefining how innovation happens in the enterprise. By building, fine-tuning and deploying AI on their own terms, they reduce reliance on vendors ...

Chinese open models are spreading fast, from Hugging Face to Silicon Valley. Here’s why that matters. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to ...

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek app is seen on a phone in front of a flag of China on Jan. 28, 2025, in Hong Kong, China. (Photo illustration by Anthony ...

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often ...

The infrastructure surrounding open AI may ultimately be more commercially valuable than many of the individual models ...

While we can’t help but be inundated by news of this or that latest model, open source keeps quietly chugging away in the background. CNCF now hosts more than 230 projects with more than 300,000 ...

Closed versus Open Source code has divided the Bitcoin and broader crypto industry for well over a decade. Bitcoin advocates have long argued that the financial infrastructure of the world should be ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jeffrey Young, Georgia Institute of Technology (THE CONVERSATION) You’ve probably ...