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

"[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. Clearly, [Meta] views its training data as a competitive differentiator or sees some other risk in making it public. It also wants to maintain control over the governance of its models in terms of how they can be integrated with other vendors' platforms.""

""shared ecosystem of tools, standards and community-driven innovation.""

The Linux Foundation formed the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) to help enterprises develop and manage AI agents through a "shared ecosystem of tools, standards and community-driven innovation." AAIF members include AWS, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Cisco; Meta is absent. Bloomberg reported that Meta is building a proprietary, revenue-generating model codenamed Avocado. Info-Tech Research Group principal research director Brian Jackson said Meta preferred an open-weights approach rather than full open source because true openness would require sharing training data and surrendering governance control. Jackson added that Meta views training data as a competitive differentiator and wants to retain integration and governance control.

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