The Linux Foundation In The Age Of AI

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In a recent episode of The New Stack Agents from the Open Source Summit in Amsterdam, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, discussed the evolving landscape of open source AI. While the Linux Foundation has helped build ecosystems like the CNCF for cloud-native computing, there's no unified umbrella foundation yet for open source AI. Existing efforts include the PyTorch Foundation and LF AI & Data, but AI development is still fragmented across models, tooling, and standards.

Zemlin highlighted the industry's shift from foundational models to open-weight models and now toward inference stacks and agentic AI. He suggested a collective effort may eventually form but cautioned against forcing structure too early, stressing the importance of not hindering innovation. Foundations, he said, must balance scale with agility. On the debate over what qualifies as "open source" in AI, Zemlin adopted a pragmatic view, acknowledging the costs of creating frontier models. He supports open-weight models and believes fully open models, from data to deployment, may emerge over time.

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