Keeping the door open
Think tank: Social Market Foundation
Author(s): Sam Robinson
July 3, 2025
This report from UK think tank the Social Market Foundation explores how the public sector can be equipped to maintain open-source AI models.
AI offers significant potential to enhance UK public services, but the debate on whether to implement proprietary (‘closed’) or open-source models remains underdeveloped in recent strategies.
This report explores how the UK public sector can be equipped to effectively consider, implement, and maintain open-source AI models where relevant.
