OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock has been made an Honorary Professorship in Industry by the University of Bristol. We look forward to ongoing collaboration between OpenUK and OpenHQ and Bristol University's Smart Internet Lab and Joiner platform.
#opensource #digitalresearch #openuk #openhq #bristoluniversity #mwc #JOINER #mobile #opensourceai
In this week's OpenUK blogpost, CEO Amanda Brock updates on last week's speech from the UK Secretary of State for DSIT, Liz Kendall. Her first speech on AI, in which she answered Amanda's question on open source and where UK open source fits into the global ecosystem. https://openuk.uk/uksgoingforgoldonai/
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What Tailwind teaches us about open source in the age of AI - CEO, Amanda Brock says that “emergence of both AI scraping and slop is putting more pressure on open-source maintainers. While the scale of open-source adoption over the last 10 years has been unprecedented, that hasn’t translated to better support for maintainers and their projects, she said. These demands are leading to an increased risk of burnout.”
https://leaddev.com/ai/what-tailwind-teaches-us-about-open-source-in-the-age-of-ai
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Can the UK take its open source opportunity with China? @AmandaBrock , our CEO, delves into China’s success and the UK’s challenges. https://www.computing.co.uk/opinion/2026/can-the-uk-take-the-opportunity-open-to-it-in-china
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"... someone could take a Chinese LLM and, if they were lazy, not try and get rid of the ... [CCP] 'information guidance' parts within them. So I have been finding models that were built by companies in California and Germany, on top of DeepSeek's models, which then start repeating key Chinese official talking points about certain topics."
#AlexColville, China Media Project, 2025
https://omny.fm/shows/the-little-red-podcast/the-lead-goose-china-s-ai-embrace
BTW this is why most "Open Source" AI models are not actually Open Source. Unless the training data and weights are also available under libre licenses, a generative model can't be reproduced from source code.
Really, the idea of reproducing a generative model is akin to reproducing a person by cloning a new human from their DNA. There's no guarantee they'd even look similar, and there's no way they'd have anything like the same personality.
Discover how Open Source and Artificial Intelligence are shaping Africa’s digital transformation in this exclusive webinar featuring @AmandaBrock, CEO of OpenUK. Join us on Sunday, 25 January at 3PM GMT / 5PM Kigali time on YouTube to learn about future trends, ethical considerations, policy impacts, and how African innovators can lead the next technological revolution. Get notified: https://www.youtube.com/live/EQ-cvCEo_Vg?si=b3HrOdlQ_ZzHTrTn 🎙️
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The future Of Open Source and AI in Africa
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2026, is it the year of the small language model, but maybe also the tiny data centre? Can we repurpose derelict buildings and bring data centres closer to the user? Will AI be processed on devices? The @BBCNews’s @zsk talked to a group of tech folk about the wee data centre alternative. Read the article "Honey, I shrunk the data centres: Is small the new big?" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0ynenr1eno
#datacentres #AI #datacenters #opensource #opensourceai
2026 OpenUK Honours list is now live. Congratulations to all included https://openuk.uk/honours/ #openukhonours #opensource #openuk #opensourceai #opendata #openhardware #openstandards
Our CEO, @AmandaBrock, has been in Asia this week, delivering keynote speeches at China's biggest open source community conference, COSCon and at the 1st UK-Japan Advanced Connectivity Technologies Innovation Forum. She also joined the launch of a Mandarin translation of the book she edited in Beijing.
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Today we launch the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) with project contributions of MCP (Anthropic), goose (Block) and AGENTS.md (OpenAI), creating a shared ecosystem for tools, standards, and community-driven innovation.
Learn more about this major step toward open, interoperable agentic AI: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation
#AgenticAI #AAIF #OpenSourceAI #AIStandards #Interoperability #OpenInnovation #LinuxFoundation #Anthropic #Block #OpenAI #MCP #goose #AGENTSmd #FOSS #TechNews
The winners of our 6th OpenUK Awards 2025 are now live on our website. Thanks again to the awards committee, awards judges and awards sponsors 🙏 who enable us to run a free-to-enter and attend awards https://openuk.uk/awards
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Tyng-Ruey Chuang
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Along with @mozilla, @wikimediafoundation, @communia, @nextcloud and others, the @osi drafted a letter on how Europe can leverage #OpenSourceAI.
Our recommendations:
🤝 Reform public procurement to take into account the benefits of #OpenSource
💶 Fund Open Source solutions
💻 Get Open Source devs access to compute
💾 Unlock public domain data while protecting privacy and personal data
🔧 Build capacity in public and private sectors to use Open Source solutions!
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The "Road to the AI Impact Summit: AI Openness Report is now live with updates on the global data before deep diving into India and the UK with new ecosystem data, thought leadership and case studies on this week's key AI topic, Sovereignty, access to data and healthcare. Report link: https://openuk.uk/stateofopen/roadtotheaiimpactsummitreport
#IndiaAIImpactSummit2025 #IndiaAI #AIforIndia #ImpactSummit #opensource #AI #opensourceai #openuk #openhq
Along with @mozilla, @wikimediafoundation, @communia, @nextcloud and others, the @osi drafted a letter on how Europe can leverage #OpenSourceAI.
Our recommendations:
🤝 Reform public procurement to take into account the benefits of #OpenSource
💶 Fund Open Source solutions
💻 Get Open Source devs access to compute
💾 Unlock public domain data while protecting privacy and personal data
🔧 Build capacity in public and private sectors to use Open Source solutions!
[jm]
Join us in Bangalore on 18 Nov as CEO @AmandaBrock launches our new AI Openness report at @civonavigate India. Overlaying a global focus with a deep dive on the UK and India's openness, the report overlays these focuses with the inevitable sovereignty and data conversations.
https://www.civo.com/navigate/india/2025
#opensource #opensourceindia #AIIndia #opensourceai #civonavigate #civonavigateindia #fossunited #openuk
An Official AI Impact Summit pre-26 event, on the road to the AI Impact Summit, our OpenUK Impact Summit dinner in London last night brought together the Summit organiser and open tech communities. Report to follow next week. https://openuk.uk/indianaisummit https://impact.indiaai.gov.in
#IndiaAIImpactSummit2025 #opensource #opensourceai #IndiaAI #AIforIndia #ImpactSummit #opensource #AI #openuk #openhq
The FT’s Future of AI Summit’s incredible line-up tomorrow includes an “AI’s open source moment” panel with Nscale’s Nick Jones, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change’s Dr. Laura Gilbert CBE, and our OpenUK CEO, Amanda Brock, moderated by Tim Bradshaw, the Financial Times Global Tech Correspondent. https://ai.live.ft.com/
Sourish Sharma, @universalviewer, and UK Power Networks🍾🥂🏆 The shortlist has been chosen by our amazing Judging panel led by Liz Rice, Lisa Allen and Nicolas Vibert 🎉 All shortlisted nominees are offered one spot at our House of Commons Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony on 4 December. 🌐🏆🕴
#openukawards #opensource #opensourcesoftware #opendata #openhardware #opensourceAI #AI #community
Ian Forrester | @cubicgarden
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What's @aviaviavi of the State of Open Con Advisory Board by Openuk saying about it? Save the dates, 3/4 February 2026, to join the UK's open technology conference, https://stateofopencon.com/
#soocon26 #opensource #openuk #AI #opensourceai #opendata #openhardware #openstandards #opensourcesoftware