Open Models and Open Weights Are Foundational to Secure AI
The Linux Foundation celebrates collaborative efforts to build and enhance the open tools and techniques that keep AI systems safe and secure. Read More
Articles about AI/ML
What Agentic AI Asks of Open Source Strategy: A New Layer for OSPOs
Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs) have spent years helping organizations make sense of the open source they depend on: licenses, dependencies, security, standards, and the ecosystem engagements and partnerships behind the software they... Read More
Navigating the Agentic AI Guardrails: Why Open Source is the Key to AI in Regulated Industries
Last week, I had the pleasure of standing before a packed room at the Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF), a FINOS-hosted event taking place (at long last!) in my home town of Toronto. The audience was filled with familiar faces from... Read More
Scaling Inclusive Growth: Why India is the World’s AI Accelerator for Social Good
At Linux Foundation Research, we’ve spent years tracking how open source technology acts as a force multiplier for economic growth. But what we are witnessing in India today is something entirely unique. During our recent combined... Read More
Latin America’s AI Opportunity: From Adoption to Co-Creation Through Open Source
As the general manager of Dronecode Foundation, a Linux Foundation project, I work at the intersection of autonomy and open source. I spend a lot of time thinking about what it takes to move advanced technology from research labs into... Read More
Kubernetes Fuels AI Growth; Organizational Culture Remains the Decisive Factor
This blog post was originally published on the CNCF blog page on January 20, 2026. Read More
Charting a path forward for global collaboration in open source AI: Key takeaways from the GOSIM open source AI strategy forum
The open source AI ecosystem has reached a pivotal moment. There are now almost 2 million models on the Hugging Face Hub and open models, including a growing number of small but mighty ones, are rapidly catching up to proprietary... Read More
Open Source at the Crossroads of AI Opportunity and Cybersecurity Necessity
Each year, Open Source Summit North America, hosted by the Linux Foundation, brings together people from around the world to learn, connect, and collaborate. As a Research Mentee, I had the amazing opportunity to attend this conference and... Read More
Open Source AI is Transforming the Economy—Here’s What the Data Shows
As we approach the midpoint of 2025, the potential of AI to transform businesses, economies, and industries is not only widely anticipated and nearly universal but also well documented. In a commissioned project by Meta, LF Research set... Read More
The Open Source Legacy and AI’s Licensing Challenge
Open source licensing revolutionized software development, creating a thriving ecosystem built on shared innovation and collaboration. Licenses like MIT and Apache-2.0 gave developers a standard, legally robust way to share code, reducing... Read More
A Treasure Trove of Data: Propelling Open Source Investment with the 2024 Global Spotlight Insights Report
There’s nothing better than to start a new year off with a clear picture of the elements in your sphere that are working well and can be accelerated, what things need to be developed from scratch, and in which areas improvements can be... Read More