Meta is accused of “bullying” the open-source community

On August 22nd the Open Source Initiative (OSI), an industry body, issued a draft set of standards defining what counts as open-source artificial intelligence (AI). It said that, to qualify, developers of AI models must make available enough information about the data they are trained on, as well as the source code and the “weights” of the internal connections within them, to make them copyable by others. Meta, which releases the weights but not the data behind its popular Llama models (and imposes various licensing restrictions), does not meet the definition. Meta, meanwhile, continues to insist its models are open-source, setting the scene for a clash with the community’s purists.