#AAAI2025 workshops round-up 2: Open-source AI for mainstream use, and federated learning for unbounded and intelligent decentralization

In this series of articles, we're publishing summaries with some of the key takeaways from a few of workshops held at the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025). The first ever workshop on "Open Source AI for Mainstream Use" was held on March 4, 2025 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. The goal of this workshop was to bring the researchers and practitioners into a single forum to discuss topics at the intersection of AI and open source and demonstrate relevant technology. Overall, the participants appreciated the interdisciplinary nature of this workshop and are looking forward to repeating it next year. This first edition of the FLUID workshop focused on the emerging challenges and opportunities in federated learning and intelligent decentralization, bringing together a growing international community of researchers working across optimization, privacy, scalability, and practical deployment of decentralized learning systems.