--- title: Open source won software. Can it win AI too? | daily.dev description: Open source leaders debate whether openness can survive the AI era the way it won the software era. Panelists from Apache, NVIDIA, the Linux Foundation, and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-won-software-can-it-win-ai-too--vmm58sb1m twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Open source won software. Can it win AI too? | daily.dev og:description: Open source leaders debate whether openness can survive the AI era the way it won the software era. Panelists from Apache, NVIDIA, the Linux Foundation, and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-won-software-can-it-win-ai-too--vmm58sb1m og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VMm58sB1M.png og:image:alt: Open source won software. Can it win AI too? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Open source won software. Can it win AI too? **[All Things Open](https://daily.dev/sources/allthingsopen)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Open source leaders debate whether openness can survive the AI era the way it won the software era. Panelists from Apache, NVIDIA, the Linux Foundation, and Qodo argue open weight models are not open source AI, and want more transparency in data and governance. One panelist's project woke up to 300 pull requests instead of the usual 10. Panelists say value is shifting from code itself to specifications, standards, and AI skills. Dana's team uses PR-Agent to redirect irrelevant submissions back to contributors. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### what is the difference between open weight models and open source AI Open weight is not the same as open source, even though models are often labeled that way. Open source leaders from Apache, NVIDIA, the Linux Foundation, and Qodo want model releases labeled more accurately and push for more transparency in the training data and governance behind them, not just access to model weights. _daily.dev surfaces discussions like this for developers tracking what counts as truly open in AI._ ### how are maintainers dealing with AI-generated pull requests overwhelming their projects One open source maintainer described her project going from roughly 10 pull requests to 300 once AI agents started contributing. Panelists suggest AI-assisted code review, such as the PR-Agent tool, as a way to triage low-quality or irrelevant submissions and redirect them back to contributors before they consume maintainer time. _maintainers weighing AI contribution policies can find more perspectives like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Why Open Source Will \(Still\) Win in the Age of Agents](https://daily.dev/posts/why-open-source-will-still-win-in-the-age-of-agents-h3cluf8ys) · Kilo Blog · 29 upvotes · 3 comments - [The State of Open Source AI — V1.0 · July 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/the-state-of-open-source-ai-v1-0-july-2026-gjzwgazbw) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [How open source ideals must expand for AI](https://daily.dev/posts/how-open-source-ideals-must-expand-for-ai-bkrfrsccg) · InfoWorld · 8 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#code-review](https://daily.dev/tags/code-review) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-won-software-can-it-win-ai-too--vmm58sb1m) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Open source won software. 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