State of Open: The UK in 2023 Phase Two “Show us the Money”
Part 2: AI Openness
One of the first reports anywhere to map the UK’s position in openness and AI, published as generative AI exploded into public consciousness in 2023. It combines Runa Capital GitHub landscape data and survey outputs with a legal analysis of AI risk, regulation, data, IP and the meaning of “open source AI” — plus thought leadership from the OSI, Tidelift, Microsoft, the Turing Institute and the Tony Blair Institute, and five UK open AI startup case studies.
Report Includes:
Introduction and Conclusion
- Introduction: Show Me the Money — Openness and AI, Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
- Conclusion: Show the UK the Money, Dr Jennifer Barth, Chief Research Officer, OpenUK
Thought Leadership
- “Open Source AI” Definition, Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director, The Open Source Initiative
- AI and Open: Where Are We Now?, Luis Villa, Co-Founder, Tidelift and Author, OpenML.fyi
- What Open Data Means in the World of Generative AI, Sonia Cooper, Assistant General Counsel Open Innovation, Microsoft
- Building Better AI in the Open, Jennifer Ding, Senior Researcher, Turing Institute
- A New National Purpose, Benedict Macon-Cooney, Chief Strategist, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Case Studies
- Seldon, Alex Housley, Founder & CEO
- DiffBlue, Mathew Lodge, CEO
- Aleios’s Quivr, Ben Ellerby, Founder, Aleios
- Progressio AI, Margaret Hartnett, Co-Founder
- Evidently AI, Elena Samuylova, Co-Founder
Data and Legal Analysis
- Runa Capital GitHub landscape and AI data; ONS, OECD and OpenUK Survey outputs
- The 2023 AI landscape: pace of innovation, “open” outputs, and the legal questions — risk and regulation, data, IP, definitions and standards
- In Memoriam: Basil Cousins, founder of Open Forum Europe
Executive Summary
The UK’s open AI moment, 2023
- Mapped the state of UK open AI as generative AI took off, using GitHub landscape data from Runa Capital alongside ONS, OECD and OpenUK survey data
- Early exploration of the questions that would dominate the following years: what are open AI, open source AI and AI openness, and the benefits and risks of openness in AI
The legal frontier
- Analysis of AI risk and regulation, data, intellectual property and standards — before the EU AI Act was finalised
- Stefano Maffulli previews the OSI’s work towards an Open Source AI Definition; Luis Villa and Sonia Cooper explore licensing and open data in generative AI
UK open AI in practice
- Five UK case studies — Seldon, DiffBlue, Quivr, Progressio AI and Evidently AI — show a thriving early open AI startup ecosystem
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