Open Source AI Salons: Shaping the Osaid, Together

The Open Source Initiative hosted the first Open Source AI Salons in Raleigh and Barcelona, two years after releasing the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID 1.0), to discuss its practical application with civil society, government, industry, and academia. Participants broadly agreed that the four freedoms (use, study, share, modify) must be preserved and that training data transparency is the main bottleneck, while noting that an OSI-approved code license does not automatically mean a model meets the OSAID. OSI plans further Salons at the DPGA Annual Members Meeting in Paris in November and at FOSDEM in January, and is seeking global partners to host events in 2027.