12 papers
Reimagining Open Source and Openness in AI: Co-Creating Responsible Technological Futures
Genevieve Smith, Hiral Patel, Steven Luo +20
Debates over open source and openness in artificial intelligence have intensified as policymakers, researchers, and practitioners grapple with how foundation models should be devel…
A Cartography of Open Collaboration in Open Source AI: Mapping Practices, Motivations, and Governance in 14 Open Large Language Model Projects
Johan Linåker, Cailean Osborne, Jennifer Ding +1
The proliferation of open large language models (LLMs) is fostering a vibrant ecosystem in artificial intelligence (AI). However, the methods of collaboration used to develop open…
Measuring Software Innovation with Open Source Software Development Data
Eva Maxfield Brown, Cailean Osborne, Peter Cihon +4
Existing innovation metrics inadequately capture software innovation, creating blind spots for researchers and policymakers seeking to understand and foster technological innovatio…
A Report on Financial Regulations Challenge at COLING 2025
Keyi Wang, Jaisal Patel, Charlie Shen +9
Financial large language models (FinLLMs) have been applied to various tasks in business, finance, accounting, and auditing. Complex financial regulations and standards are critica…
A Toolkit for Measuring the Impacts of Public Funding on Open Source Software Development
Cailean Osborne, Paul Sharratt, Dawn Foster +1
Governments are increasingly employing funding for open source software (OSS) development as a policy lever to support the security of software supply chains, digital sovereignty,…
Characterising Open Source Co-opetition in Company-hosted Open Source Software Projects: The Cases of PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Transformers
Cailean Osborne, Farbod Daneshyan, Runzhi He +3
Companies, including market rivals, have long collaborated on the development of open source software (OSS), resulting in a tangle of co-operation and competition known as "open so…