First domestic chatbot MOSS to be made open source

MOSS, the first large-scale conversational language model in China, will be made an open-source software by the end of March, according to its research and development team.

An open-source software is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change and distribute the software and its source code.

Named after the artificial intelligence-based computer that controls the space station in the popular Chinese sci-fi film The Wandering Earth II, MOSS became the first ChatGPT-like software to be unveiled in China. It was made available for public testing on Feb 20.