The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is pleased to announce the launch of the Open Source AI Fellowship at UN Open Source Week. The fellowship will support OSI’s work to advance understanding, measure trends, engage in policy, and build consensus around what it means for an AI system to be labeled “Open Source.” Through this program, OSI aims to serve as a hub for Open Source AI by coordinating evidence, partnerships, and engagement on key policy and governance issues.
In May, Gabriel Toscano was selected to serve as the Founding Fellow for his academic and professional achievements, interdisciplinary acumen, and demonstrated commitment to OSI’s mission.
Grounded in OSI’s new partnership with Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, the two-year fellowship will forward OSI’s goals by creating opportunities for principled, evidence-based, and stakeholder-driven engagement on salient issues in Open Source AI.
Version 1.0 of the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) was released in October 2024 at All Things Open in Raleigh, North Carolina. Since then, OSI gathered feedback from stakeholders in the community and determined that the organization needs a program that is inclusive of but broader than the OSAID to build research, policy, practice, and community around Open Source AI.
