OpenUK
@openuk.bsky.social
The UK organisation for the business of open tech - engaging community to create a cohesive voice, impacting law and policy, whilst building open tech skills.
The Annual Open Source Survey 2026 is open 📊 Two firsts this year: we've gone global beyond the UK 🌍, and we're asking about AI for the first time alongside software. Built with our Economists in Residence The PSC. Survey link 👉 openuk.uk/report/survey/ #opensource #openuk #openhq
It's FOSS's Sourav Rudra: OpenUK wants Britain to stop giving away its open source creations. The big ask: build Britain its own foundation for code, governance, standards like the Linux Foundation (LF) in the US. 🇬🇧 Read the piece here: itsfoss.com/news/british... #OpenSourceAI #OpenUK #OpenHQ
AI Sovereignty discussions have shifted to a Stack and "layered sovereignty" following the NVIDIA 5-layer cake 🍰. Shift from frontier models to individuals building the infrastructure layer, open source, via GitHub. 🛠️ Link to the Report in first comment. #OpenWeights #OpenSourceAI #OpenUK #OpenHQ
No UK firms feature in NVIDIA's new Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security. 🌍 OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock: "If we want a place at the future dinner table for AI, we need to carve out our own place now." 🍽️ Read the article here: www.uktech.news/ai/uk-firms-... #AI #opensourceai #openuk
Want to understand the US leadership in the open weights letter from Friday and today’s announcement of the Open Source AI Alliance? Read our report published on 23 July. Read the full report here: openuk.uk/report/aiope... #openweights #openmodels #aiopenness #opensource #opensourceai #openuk
Open Letter on US Leadership in open weights 🇺🇸 @theregister.com's Thomas Claburn quotes our CEO Professor Amanda Brock: "better to manage AI's security risks openly, transparently." 🔐 Read the article here: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20... #openweights #openmodels #opensourceai #openuk
On our AI Openness report 📊 , Computing's John Leonard says "China is taking the lead in AI" via open source. CEO @AmandaBrock: "the US's strategy has shifted into turmoil." 🚨 Read the article here: www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai... #AI #sovereignty #opensource #opensourceai #openuk #openhq.
Cliff Saran of Computer Weekly on OpenUK's AI Openness report, calling out 📢 the need for a UK-based open source foundation for the UK's AI future. 🇬🇧🔧 Read the article here: www.computerweekly.com/news/3666462... #AI #sovereignty #opensource #openmodels #openweights #opensourceai #openuk #openhq
🔊 The ultimate AI Openness Report: three years on from the opening of Llama 2 🔊 this report digs deep into the data to understand the market's shifts in technology, policy and more openuk.uk/report/aiope... #aiopenness #llama2 #opensource #opensourcesoftware #openuk #openhq
AI’s importance to the UK’s digital and industrial future cannot be emphasised enough, and our AI Minister, Kanishka Narayan MP, has been elevated to the Cabinet, recognising the importance of that role to the UK. Congratulations on the promotion! #AI #opensource #kanishka #opensourceAI #openuk
OpenUK's “Annual Open Source Survey 2026” is now live! For the first time, this includes both software and AI. The survey is open to our international colleagues, not just folks in the UK. openuk.uk/report/survey/ #opensource #opensourcesoftware #openuk #openhq
CEO of OpenUK, Professor @Amanda Brock tells ITPro that the industry is still grappling with AI as a novel force and different projects are handling it in different ways. 🤖 Read the article here: www.itpro.com/software/ope... @itpro.com #openuk #opensource #opensourceai
Will AI ring the death knell for open source?
With projects facing fresh challenges in the AI era, the path forward remains murky
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Sovereignty, Mythos, Fable....Don't Panic, says Adrian Mouat 🤩, Chainguard, in his keynote "The Mythos Effect" at SOOCon26 On The Road Edinburgh on June 5. stateofopencon.com/content-edin... #mythos #fable #models #opensource #AI #opensourceai #stateofopencon #soocon26 #openuk #openhq
"Keeping up with AI: The Challenge for Security and Identity Teams" Panel at SOOCon 26, led by our Entrepreneurs Residence Matt Barker, BoltMCP, saw panellists Matt Jarvis, Snyk; Chaamini Mangaleswaran, WSO2; and Sal Kimmich, GadflyAI. stateofopencon.com/content-edin... #agents #identity #AIIdentity
His keynote on Agentic Technology and securing it with Identity saw Matt Barker, CEO & Co-Founder, BoltMCP, give a really helpful scene setter on agentic, before going into debates with his panel at SOOCon26 Edinburgh on June 5. stateofopencon.com/content-edin... #agents #identity #AIIdentity
Research and Reporting has grown exponentially for OpenUK, and we welcome Director of Data Analytics, Dr Daniel Izquierdo Cortázar, from Madrid, Spain, who brings a wealth of data experience from his work with @chaossproj.bsky.social and beyond. openuk.uk/profiles/dan... #opensource
Panel: "The impact of AI on open source software development", moderated by Chris Plank, the panel brings together Paula Kennedy, Mike McQuaid, Keith Bergelt, and Justin Cormack, at SOOCon26 On The Road Edinburgh on June 5. stateofopencon.com/content-edin... #opensource #AI #opensourceai #aiskills
The AI Commons We Haven't (Yet) Built, was the challenge faced in Anastasia Stasenko, Founder and CEO, pleias, keynote at SOOCon26 Edinburgh on June 5, where she asked if the commons model that built the open web can actually survive in the AI era stateofopencon.com/content-edin... #opensource #AI
Momentum AI Conference by Reuters's "Redefining the Enterprise to Drive Measurable Business Value with AI" on 29 June will include OpenUK CEO, Professor Amanda Brock, as part of the “Future Proofing Europe’s Competitive AI Edge" panel. events.reutersevents.com/momentum/lon... #momentumai #reuters
A tale of two cities captures exactly where AI is today, with those actually using and those observing - a great explanation of this by Fintan Ryan, Director for Market Insights,🤩 at GitHub, in his keynote. stateofopencon.com/content-edin... #opensource #AI #opensourceai #aiskills #stateofopencon
"Sovereignty and Open Source" is incredibly topical, and our panel at SOOCOn26 got deep into the conversation about what open source is. Watch here: stateofopencon.com/content-edin... #sovereignty #digitalsovereignty #aisovereignty #datasovereignty #opensource #opensourceai #collaboration #ai
Economics and value of open source are critical understandings for policy makers and those engaging in open source, which is why The PSC joining our team as "Economists in Residence" is so important to us. Learn more about The PSC: openuk.uk/profiles/the... #opensource #opensourcesoftware #economics
Our ever-growing body of reporting is led by Dr Jennifer Barth, Research Director, who works closely with our CEO, Professor Amanda Brock, and Research Manager Karan Saini, in the shaping and delivery of our reports. Look forward to a Sovereignty Report this week and an AI Openness update in July.
What does an open source AI stack look like in the real world? Godfrey Inyama from Heriot-Watt University and the National Robotarium show us the robot 🤖 for a live demonstration at SOOCOn26 in Edinburgh. stateofopencon.com/content-edin... #opensource #AI #aiscotland #aimodels #aiagent #agent
Our Sovereignty Roundtable highlighted the UK tech strategy failings and opportunities, including open source and collaboration, which the UK must grab now, to manage collaboration in a world focused on sovereignty, according to John Leonard of Computing www.computing.co.uk/feature/2026...
UK’s tech strategy failure is a threat to democracy, experts
The UK’s long-term failure to develop a coherent technology strategy is no longer just a business problem - increasingly it’s a democratic one.
computing.co.uk
Our Sovereignty Roundtable is written up by Resultsense, featuring CEO Professor Amanda Brock, highlighting the over-conflation of terminology and the need for clarity, as well as open source. www.resultsense.com/news/2026-06... #opensource #opensourceai #ai #digitalsovereignty #aisovereignty
Can open source deliver UK sovereign AI? Experts weigh in
At an OpenUK roundtable, experts argued UK sovereign AI is less about geography than control and resilience, warning against 'sovereign washing'.
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Chris Yiu, Meta, reflects on what happens when you apply the open source ethos to AI models and data for good - and what that means for people and communities around the world in his keynote at SOOCon26 Edinburgh on June 5. stateofopencon.com/content-edin... #stateofopencon #soocon26 #openuk
OpenUK’s sovereignty event saw a deep exploration of what sovereignty is and how it can only hope to work in balance with collaboration and open source. Read here: www.thinkdigitalpartners.com/news/2026/06... #opensource #digitalsovereignty #aisovereignty #datasovereignty #sovereignty #openuk
Can open source help deliver sovereign AI? | THINK Digital Partners
A recent OpenUK roundtable saw politicians, technologists and former government leaders argue that open source software, transparency and global collaboration could prove just as important to…
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Nick Jones, Nscale, delivers a personal talk on: what does sovereignty actually mean in practice, and can we build it fast enough? in his keynote at SOOCon26 On The Road Edinburgh on June 5. View the content here: stateofopencon.com/content-edin... #stateofopencon #soocon26 #openuk #openhq
Professor Adrian Jackson, EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, takes us on a journey through four decades of large-scale computing in his keynote: "Supercomputing and AI in Edinburgh" at SOOCon26 On The Road Edinburgh on June 5. View the content here: stateofopencon.com/content-edin... #soocon26
