> The EU AI Act negotiations ended. One contentious issue was the regulation of foundation models, particularly open source ones.

> Kudos to the French, German, and Italian governments for not giving up on open source models.

> Juicy part: "The legislation ultimately included restrictions for foundation models but gave broad exemptions to “open-source models,” which are developed using code that’s freely available for developers to alter for their own products and tools. The move could benefit open-source AI companies in Europe that lobbied against the law, including France’s Mistral and Germany’s Aleph Alpha, as well as Meta, which released the open-source model LLaMA."