When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...

Done right, openness creates a stronger business structure and a larger surface area for value creation than closed software.

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often ...

Chinese open models are spreading fast, from Hugging Face to Silicon Valley. Here’s why that matters. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to ...

Often thankless, always needed. These are the projects that make the internet work as well as it does.

While we can’t help but be inundated by news of this or that latest model, open source keeps quietly chugging away in the background. CNCF now hosts more than 230 projects with more than 300,000 ...

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek app is seen on a phone in front of a flag of China on Jan. 28, 2025, in Hong Kong, China. (Photo illustration by Anthony ...