1、The Economic and Workforce Impacts of Open Source AIInsights from Industry,Academia,and Open Source Research PublicationsAnna Hermansen,The Linux FoundationCailean Osborne,PhD,The Linux FoundationMay 2025Commissioned by According to industry research,nearly all developers have experimented with open

2、 models and almost two thirds(63%)of companies are using an open model.89%of organizations who have adopted AI use open source AI(OSAI)in some form in their infrastructure.AIs 50%+reduction in business unit costs,coupled with open source softwares cost savings,suggests that OSAI holds significant po

3、tential for revenue gains.Two thirds of organizations report that OSAI is cheaper to deploy than proprietary AI,and nearly half choose OSAI because of their cost savings.Open source positively impacts AI innovation:increased inter-organizational collaboration leads to faster development of high-qual

4、ity models.Smaller businesses are adopting OSAI at a higher rate than larger businesses.OSAI will be foundational for small models powering privacy-preserving edge applications and reasoning models with higher inference-time compute.In healthcare,open models have proven to be on par with proprietary

5、 models,demonstrating that institutions can adopt OSAI without sacrificing performance.OSAI is poised to have a high impact in manufacturing,where open models provide the flexibility needed to integrate AI directly into operational processes.The Economic and Workforce Impacts of Open Source AICopyri

6、ght 2025 The Linux Foundation|May 2025.This report is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License.Please cite this research report when using these infographics.See citation guidance on the reports back page.THE ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE IMPACTS OF OPE