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Open Source Ai

Explore 22 projects in the Open Source Ai category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

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https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/ICT-Applications/Pages/Initiatives/ITU_OSPO/Open-Source_AI_for_Public_Services/About_the_Initiative.aspxActive

Open-Source AI for Public Services (ITU AI)

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-led multi-stakeholder initiative on Open-Source Generative AI for Public Services aims to develop an end-to-end, open-source implementation framework that enables public sector stakeholders to easily build and deploy their own GenAI solutions using modular, open-source software blueprints.

Geneva, Switzerland
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Generative AI, Govtech, Internal government tech capacity, Open source, Open source AI, Open source networks
United Nations, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
https://huggingface.co/bigscience/bloomzActive

BigScience/BloomZ

"BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model is a 176-billion-parameter transformer-based autoregressive large language model. The model, as well as the code base and the data used to train it, are distributed under free licences." - Wikipedia

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Open source AI
commercial
https://opensource.org/aiActive

The Open Source AI Definition

The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI.

West Hollywood
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data schemas and standards, Fieldwide resources, Open source, Open source AI
https://github.com/openlm-research/open_llamaActive

OpenLLaMA

OpenLLaMA, a permissively licensed open source reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA 7B trained on the RedPajama dataset

Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Open source AI
commercial, Meta
https://www.swiss-ai.org/Active

Swiss AI Initiative

The Swiss AI Initiative is operated by SNAI and the largest open science/open source effort for AI foundation models worldwide.​

Zurich
2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Open science, Open source, Open source AI
https://huggingface.co/PleIAs/CommonLinguaActive

CommonLingua

CommonLingua is a 2.35 million-parameters language identification model trained on 2,482,568 paragraphs from Structured Wikipedia and Common Corpus trained by Pleias in partnership with the GSMA's "AI Language Models in Africa, by Africa, for Africa" initiative.

France
2026
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine learning, Natural Language Processing, Open source AI, Translation and linguistic representation
https://www.bsc.es/news/bsc-news/alia-europes-first-public-open-and-multilingual-ai-infrastructureActive

La Infrastructura Pública de IA Abierta y Multilingüe (ALIA)

Europe's first public, open and multilingual AI infrastructure

Barcelona, Spain
2019
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Open source AI, Translation and linguistic representation
https://amazonminingwatch.org/enActiveOpen-source

Amazon Mining Watch

Amazon Mining Watch uses machine learning to map the scars of gold mining activities in the Amazonian countries.

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Environmental data, Machine learning, Open source, Open source AI, Satellites
https://caseworker.navapbc.com/ActiveOpen-source

Caseworker Empowerment Toolkit

A suite of open source AI-powered tools that help caseworkers at every step of their journey connecting families with the social safety net

2026
Access social benefits, Agentic AI, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Bots, Bureaucracy tech, Case management, Forms, Open source AI