As AI and software stacks grow complex, Indian startups are moving from using open source to actively contributing, seeing collaboration as a strategic business advantage ...

Just last week the Chinese firm Moonshot AI released its latest open-weight model, Kimi K2.5, which came close to top proprietary systems such as Anthropic’s Claude Opus on some early benchmarks. The ...

Generative AI is erasing open source code provenance. FOSS reciprocity collapses when attribution and ownership disappear. The commons that built AI may not survive its success. We live in an ...

Imagine a world where countries work together like open-source code. This is what happened when Britain and Italy tried to change how they work together. Britain was the “reluctant sheriff” and Italy ...

And why I can't go back.

I love free and open-source software (FOSS). The whole movement is one of the best things in the world of technology and computers as a whole. I've been an open-source advocate for most of my life at ...

You will miss certain features and conveniences, but that's to be expected. What you earn in return is full control and autonomy. Reclaiming your data is a slow process, but after you start seeing the ...

When President Trump released the U.S. AI Action Plan last week, many were surprised to see “encourage open-source and open-weight AI,” as one of the administration’s top priorities. The White House ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am an MIT Senior Fellow & Lecturer, 5x-founder & VC investing in AI When teams prepare large language models to operate, they ...

ServiceNow and Nvidia have launched a new open-source AI model. It's designed to build custom agents and optimize security. Despite ample hype, many businesses aren't seeing ROI from AI. Software ...

We talk about open source software in the wrong way. The conversation always comes back to cost savings, licensing fees and avoiding vendor lock-in. These things matter, but they're not why open ...