It's everyone but Meta in a new AI standards group

"Brian Jackson, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group, said, "[Meta was] never interested in a truly open source model approach, just an open weights model approach. To really commit to open source, [it] would have to be willing to share its training data and give up control over model governance." Weights, he said, "are just the different knobs along the neural pathways that can be tweaked when training a model."

"It also wants to maintain control over the governance of its models in terms of how they can be integrated with other vendors' platforms. Jackson pointed out that, now that it sees that The Linux Foundation is going to better define a standard for truly open source models, Meta realizes it isn't going to be able to define the space and distribute its model in the way it intended."

Meta is developing a proprietary AI model code-named Avocado intended to generate revenue rather than being released as open source. The Linux Foundation created the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to build a shared ecosystem of tools, standards and community-driven innovation for enterprise AI agents, with members including AWS, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, IBM and Cisco. Meta is not part of AAIF. Info-Tech Research Group noted that Meta favored open weights over full open source because sharing training data and ceding governance would be required. Meta views training data and governance control as competitive differentiators and believes it cannot define the open-source space as intended.

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