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What is Open Source?

Open Source refers to software where its original design, or "blueprint," is made freely available for anyone to see and use. This public access allows a community of users and developers to study the software, fix issues, and add new features.

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An Open-Source AI Agent for Doing Tasks on the Web
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NNetNav learns how to navigate websites by mimicking childhood learning through exploration.

An Open-Source AI Agent for Doing Tasks on the Web

Katharine Miller
Mar 27

NNetNav learns how to navigate websites by mimicking childhood learning through exploration.

Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
news
Are Open-Source AI Models Worth The Risk?
Tech Brew
Oct 31
media mention

Rishi Bommasani, Society Lead at HAI's CRFM, discusses where AI is proving most dangerous, why openness is important, and how regulators are thinking about the open-close divide. 

Are Open-Source AI Models Worth The Risk?

Tech Brew
Oct 31

Rishi Bommasani, Society Lead at HAI's CRFM, discusses where AI is proving most dangerous, why openness is important, and how regulators are thinking about the open-close divide. 

Foundation Models
media mention
The Open-Source Movement Comes to Medical Datasets
Edmund L. Andrews
Aug 02
news

Hoping to spur crowd-sourced AI applications in health care, Stanford’s AIMI center is expanding its free repository of datasets for researchers around the world.

The Open-Source Movement Comes to Medical Datasets

Edmund L. Andrews
Aug 02

Hoping to spur crowd-sourced AI applications in health care, Stanford’s AIMI center is expanding its free repository of datasets for researchers around the world.

Healthcare
Machine Learning
news
Bump’em: an Open-Source, Bump-Emulation System for Studying Human Balance and Gait
Guan Rong Tan, Michael Raitor, Steven Hartley Collins
Dec 27
Research
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Bump’em: an Open-Source, Bump-Emulation System for Studying Human Balance and Gait

Bump’em: an Open-Source, Bump-Emulation System for Studying Human Balance and Gait

Guan Rong Tan, Michael Raitor, Steven Hartley Collins
Dec 27

Bump’em: an Open-Source, Bump-Emulation System for Studying Human Balance and Gait

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Research