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Serverless Stack raises $1M for open-source application framework

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Open-source framework startup Serverless Stack announced Friday that it raised $1 million in seed funding from a group of investors that includes Greylock Partners, SV Angel and Y Combinator. Instead, Serverless Stack connects directly to the cloud for the ability to debug applications locally, he added.

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Nvidia will fully transition to open-source GPU kernel modules with R560 drivers

TechSpot

According to Nvidia, the open-source GPU kernel modules have helped deliver "equivalent or better" application performance compared to its proprietary kernels. Read Entire Article

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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

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For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model. The three-year-old Chinese startup, which builds open source software for processing unstructured data, recently closed a Series B round of $43 million.

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Massive Foundation Model for Biomolecular Sciences Now Available via NVIDIA BioNeMo

NVIDIA AI Blog

Developers interested in fine-tuning Evo 2 on their proprietary datasets can download the model through the open-source NVIDIA BioNeMo Framework , a collection of accelerated computing tools for biomolecular research. Applications Across Biomolecular Sciences Evo 2 can provide insights into DNA, RNA and proteins.

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It’s a Sign: AI Platform for Teaching American Sign Language Aims to Bridge Communication Gaps

NVIDIA AI Blog

NVIDIA, the American Society for Deaf Children and creative agency Hello Monday are helping close this gap with Signs, an interactive web platform built to support ASL learning and the development of accessible AI applications. The dataset behind Signs is planned for release later this year.

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Which open source startups rocketed in 2022?

TechCrunch

A new report shines a light on the world of commercial open source software (COSS) startups, including which ones are growing fastest, which are raising cash and even which universities are most popular among COSS founders. Runa previously backed a number of companies with open source foundations such as Nginx , MariaDB and N8n.

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OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

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In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as translation from those languages into English. Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning.