Open source AI is already finding its way into production.

Open source AI models are in widespread use, enabling developers around the world to build custom AI solutions and host them where they choose.

Open source has long driven innovation and the adoption of cutting-edge technologies, from web interfaces to cloud-native computing. The same is true in the burgeoning field of open source artificial intelligence (AI). Open source AI models, and the tooling to build and use them, are multiplying, enabling developers around the world to build custom AI solutions and host them where they choose.

It’s happening faster than you might realize. In our survey of 2,000 enterprise respondents on software development teams across the US, Germany, India, and Brazil, nearly everyone said they had experimented with open source AI models at some point. The survey didn’t specifically ask about generative AI models and large language models (LLM), so these results could include other types of AI and machine learning models. Notably, we conducted our survey before the Open Source Initiative published their definition of open source AI.

But the survey results suggest that the use of open source AI models is already surprisingly widespread—and this is expected to grow as more models proliferate and more use cases emerge. Let’s take a look at the rise of open source AI, from the increasing rise of smaller models to use cases in generative AI.

https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/open-source-ai-is-already-finding-its-way-into-production/