The Linux The Foundation announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at promoting open-source artificial intelligence models.
Last week, the Open Model Initiative (OMI) was officially launched and is now operating under the auspices of The Linux Foundation. Together, they aim to stimulate innovation in the development of open-source AI models.
OMI was created by three organizations specializing in AI: Invoke, Comfy Org and Civitai. The initiative focuses on the development and dissemination of AI models for generating images, video and audio, which will be available under open licenses.
The project will be managed by a committee made up of community representatives. All models released under OMI will have licenses that remain unchanged, will not include content removal provisions, and will not require mandatory payment for access.
The main objectives of this program:
- creating a governance structure and working groups to support community collaboration;
- Conducting surveys among community members to understand their needs and expectations for research and training of future models;
- developing competitive and ethical AI models with open licenses;
- creating standards to ensure model interoperability and a unified approach to metadata;
- working with transparent training data sets and creating automatic data labeling systems;
- launch of an alpha version of the model for targeted security testing (Red Teaming);
- publication of an alpha version of the model and scenarios for its configuration by the end of 2024.
At the moment, OMI does not yet have an official website, but information on it can be found on project page on GitHub or Discord server.
During the announcement, The executive director Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin said:
"The Linux The Foundation is deeply committed to the open and collaborative development of AI. With the launch of the Open Model Initiative, we are taking a significant step toward making AI accessible and useful to everyone, creating an environment where creativity and progress in AI can flourish without barriers.
Today, many companies and AI developers are too often seduced by commercial benefits, which limits access to models. An open model that anyone could use yesterday may be behind a pay wall tomorrow.
Source: linux.org.ru
