Open Source AI Is Not the Future — It’s the Now

The Linux Foundation hosted the AI_dev Open Source AI Summit in Amsterdam where leaders, developers and innovators gathered to discuss and shape the trajectory of open source AI. The event highlighted the rapid adoption of open models by enterprises for their flexibility, transparency, and security, marking a shift from experimental use to core business integration.

Key Ideas

Enterprises are increasingly deploying and fine‑tuning open source AI models as foundational components of their AI strategies, leveraging them for measurable business value.
Collaboration across the ecosystem is driving innovation, with models like OpenAI’s gpt‑oss‑120b and 20b, and DeepSeek’s offerings, showing competitive performance against closed alternatives.
Industry voices like Oumi’s CEO Manos Koukoumidis, stress that an open AI future is essential for equity, collaboration and resisting dominance by a few large players.

Why It Matters?

Developers now have possibility to experiment with and contribute to open source AI models integrating them into enterprise workflows and enhancing them for domain‑specific needs. Entrepreneurs can build products and services on top of open AI frameworks reducing dependency on closed ecosystems and lowering costs. Everyone should invest in and benefit fom infrastructure, partnerships that enable scalable, secure and compliant deployment of open AI solutions.