LLM360 | Community-Driven AGI via Open-Source LLMs

Maintaining the love for coding in the time of AI

By Alex Band Over the last year, we have seen the profound effects Large Language Models (LLMs) have on our open-source software work at NLnet Labs. These can be grouped into two main areas: community contributions and security reports. Before we dive into this topic, let me first give

OpenAI's open source LLM is a reasoning model, coming Next Thursday!

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open-slopware

Free/Open Source Software choosing to use and/or support LLM usage/AI, as well as alternatives and tips to requesting better policies or forking.

Big AI is accelerating the metacrisis: What can we do?

The world is in the grip of ecological, meaning, and language crises that are converging into a metacrisis. Big AI is accelerating them all. LLM engineering sits at the core. Despite the public good motives of language engineers and the promise of LLMs, this work is being leveraged to create unprecedented wealth and power for a handful of individuals and corporations while causing existential harm to life on earth. As a profession, we urgently need to come together to explore alternatives and to design a life-affirming future for our field of natural language processing that is centered on human flourishing on a living planet.

AI Agents: Key Concepts and How They Overcome LLM Limitations

An AI agent is an autonomous software entity that is often used to augment a large language model. Here's what developers need to know.

SmolLM3: smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Are LLMs Stifling Political Speech? An Assessment of How AI Models Protect Free Expression | Oversight Board

The Oversight Board’s first evaluation of large language models (LLMs) shows that some of the world’s most-used models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta

AGNTCY.org — Building the Internet of Agents (IoA)

AGNTCY delivers an open-source stack enabling AI agents to collaborate across vendors and frameworks through discovery, identity, messaging, and observability.

From OSS to Open Source AI: an Exploratory Study of Collaborative...

AI development is embracing open-source paradigm, but the fundamental distinction between AI models and traditional software artifacts may lead to a divergent open-source development paradigm with...

Environments Hub: A Community Hub To Scale RL To Open AGI

RL environments are the playgrounds where agents learn. Until now, they’ve been fragmented, closed, and hard to share. We are launching the Environments Hub to change that: an open, community-powered platform that gives environments a true home.Environments define the world, rules and feedback loop of state, action and reward. From games to coding tasks to dialogue, they’re the contexts where AI learns, without them, RL is just an algorithm with nothing to act on.

Built to benefit everyone: our plan

A vision for the future of AI, focusing on access, safety, and shared prosperity as OpenAI works to ensure AGI benefits everyone.

We Got Claude to Fine-Tune an Open Source LLM

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Supporting Our AI Overlords: Redesigning Data Systems to be Agent-First

Large Language Model (LLM) agents, acting on their users' behalf to manipulate and analyze data, are likely to become the dominant workload for data systems in the future. When working with data,...

Debates on the nature of artificial general intelligence

The term “artificial general intelligence” (AGI) has become ubiquitous in current discourse around AI. OpenAI states that its mission is “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.” DeepMind’s company vision statement notes that “artificial general intelligence…has the potential to drive one of the greatest transformations in history.” AGI is mentioned prominently in the UK government’s National AI Strategy and in US government AI documents . Microsoft researchers recently claimed evidence of “sparks of AGI” in the large language model GPT-4, and current and former Google executives proclaimed that “AGI is already here.” The question of whether GPT-4 is an “AGI algorithm” is at the center of a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk against OpenAI.