Open Source AI · Governance · Research

I build the open institutions that AI runs on.

Founding Executive Director of the Open Intelligence Foundation. Former Global CTO of AI, Linux Foundation. Former Executive Director and CTO, PyTorch Foundation, Founding CTO Agentic AI Foundation and Director of the Generative AI Commons. Author of the Model Openness Framework and the OpenMDW license.

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Open source AI is the only path forward

Artificial intelligence should be inspectable, reproducible and owned by no one. My entire career has been focused on building the platforms, the licenses and the governance that make that practical — across enterprise, industry, academia and open source foundations.

Most recently Global CTO of AI at the Linux Foundation, CTO of the PyTorch and Agentic AI Foundations, and before that Head of AI and Data at Amdocs and National Director of Data Science at IBM.

Where I work and have worked
Open Intelligence FoundationLinux FoundationColumbia UniversityPyTorch FoundationAgentic AI FoundationLF AI & DataGenerative AI CommonsUC Berkeley

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Foundation · 2026 Open Intelligence Foundation A 501(c)(3) non-profit protecting and advancing open-source AI, open models and open science — community first and bottom up. Builds communities, supports exceptional projects, curates Open Source AI Week, and connects technical talent with resources, capital and collaborators. Founding Executive Director Event · 2026 Open Source AI Week A community-run, decentralised celebration of open source AI across the Bay Area — 60+ independently hosted events and 200+ participating organisations, anchored by the Open Intelligence Foundation. Co-Lead Labs · 2026 Open Agent Labs OpenTrace, OpenRoll and llms.md — vendor-neutral specifications for recording and reproducing everything an agent system does at runtime. Founder

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Open Source AI Summit SF 2026 · Aug 2026 Why Open Models and Open Science Matter Video Agentic AI Summit 2026, Berkeley RDI · Aug 2026 Panel: Agentic AI Developer Platforms Video Agentic AI Summit 2026, Berkeley RDI · Aug 2026 The Open Agentic Stack: Building the Future of AI Systems with Open Source, Open Standards and Composability Video

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The AI Oligopoly We could Create by Trying to Prevent One My analysis and response to the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act Substack · September 25, 2026 Twenty Researchers, One Table Notes from WAIC 2026 in Shanghai — on Xi Jinping’s open source pledge, the safety debt Chinese labs are carrying, and why Washington’s instinct to build… Substack · July 30, 2026 Distillation Is Not IP Theft Confusing a scientific method with a legal wrong will harm open AI—and obscure the real issues Substack · July 24, 2026

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