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

TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

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

JULY 18, 2024

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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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

The Verge

JANUARY 9, 2022

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “ faker.js ” and “ colors.js ” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

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

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

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

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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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Facebook, Instagram beta testing Community Notes in the U.S.

Mashable Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Meta says it will use X's open source algorithm as the basis of its own rating system, with the potential to build out the feature as its deployed. "As In February, the company opened up applications for what they're calling a "Community Notes network" of fact-checking contributors on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

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Which open source startups rocketed in 2022?

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

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

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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.

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A Gentle Introduction to OpenCV: An Open Source Library for Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Machine Learning Mastery

OCTOBER 20, 2023

If you are interested in working with images and video and would like to introduce machine learning into your computer vision applications, then OpenCV is a library that you will need to get hold of.

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Oligo raises $28M to secure open-source libraries at runtime

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Oligo Security , a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on runtime application security and observability to detect and prevent open-source vulnerabilities, is coming out of stealth today and announcing that it has raised a total of $28 million in seed and Series A funding. This, ideally, cuts down on unnecessary alerts.

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NVIDIA Releases NIM Microservices to Safeguard Applications for Agentic AI

NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

New NVIDIA NIM microservices for AI guardrails part of the NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails collection of software tools are portable, optimized inference microservices that help companies improve the safety, precision and scalability of their generative AI applications. In customer service, its helping resolve customer issues up to 40% faster.

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Meet Budibase, a low-code open-source web app builder with automations

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

So despite the broader downturn , it seems that 2022 may have been relatively kind to startups operating in the no- and low-code sphere, something that fledgling Northern Irish startup Budibase is capitalizing on with the announcement of a fresh $7 million tranche of funding to further develop an open source web app builder.

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Open source startups have a natural growth model: PLG

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Tracking the growth and frequency of open source startups has been a long-running project at TechCrunch. This column joined the fun in the last few years , noting what seemed to be a rising wave of startups building open source projects that they later monetized. Confluent was one. Hashicorp was another.

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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Victoria Melnikova Contributor Share on Twitter Alongside fellow Evil Martians , Victoria Melnikova builds devtools and commercial open source products and writes about her journey in tech. But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity?

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Speckle snags $5.5M seed to build open source platform for 3D drawings

TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

They wanted to make it easier by building an open source platform to exchange and collaborate on these files. ” He said that Speckle is also a developer platform on which you can harvest this 3D data and use it for productive things like building applications that make it easier to work with.

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LibreCAD is an open source alternative to AutoCAD

TechSpot

JUNE 15, 2022

LibreCAD is a free computer-aided design application. Its interface is similar to AutoCAD, plus it uses the AutoCAD DXF format for importing and saving by default. It's available for Windows, macOS and Linux.

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Qdrant, an open source vector database startup, wants to help AI developers leverage unstructured data

TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Founded out of Berlin in 2021, Qdrant is targeting AI software developers with an open source vector search engine and database for unstructured data, which is an integral part of AI application development particularly as it relates to using real-time data that hasn’t been categorized or labeled.

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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

With Together, Prakash, Zhang, Re and Liang are seeking to create open source generative AI models and services that, in their words, “help organizations incorporate AI into their production applications.” The number of open source models both from community groups and large labs grows by the day , practically.

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Open Source Vizier: Towards reliable and flexible hyperparameter and blackbox optimization

Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Today we are excited to announce Open Source (OSS) Vizier (with an accompanying systems whitepaper published at AutoML Conference 2022 ), a standalone Python package based on Google Vizier. Furthermore, evaluations may fail due to transient errors and be retried, or may fail due to persistent errors (e.g.,

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ARMO raises $30M to build an end-to-end open source Kubernetes security platform

TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

ARMO , the Tel Aviv-based company behind Kubescape , the popular open source Kubernetes security platform, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global. New investor Hyperwise Ventures as well as existing investors Pitango First and Peled Ventures also participated in this round.

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Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Activeloop , a member of the Y Combinator summer 2018 cohort , is building a database specifically designed for media-focused artificial intelligence applications. He says that there are 55 contributors to the open source project and 700 community members overall. Activeloop image database. Image Credits: Activeloop.

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AtomicJar opens public beta of Testcontainers Cloud, cloud version of open source testing tool

TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Richard North developed an open source solution called Testcontainers in 2015 to help ease this problem for developers. Today, the open source project is used by companies like Uber, Netflix, Spotify and Capital One. Working with, microservices-based development environments presents a unique set of testing challenges.

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Prisma raises $40M for its open source ‘Rosetta stone’ for database languages

TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Its open-source-based Prisma ORM, launched last year, now has more than 150,000 developers using it for Node.js Schmidt said the plan is to increase investment in that open-source tool to bring on more users, with a view to building its first revenue-generating products.

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The 10 most innovative computing companies of 2025

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Commercial data centers are also transforming to meet the demands of AI and high-performance computing applications. introduced novel multi-modal AI chips for edge computing; they can analyze inputs from text, computer-vision images, and audio for use in self-driving vehicles, robotics, smart retail, healthcare, and other applications.

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Iterative launches MLEM, an open-source tool to simplify ML model deployment

TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

MLOps platform Iterative , which announced a $20 million Series A round almost exactly a year ago, today launched MLEM, an open-source git-based machine learning model management and deployment tool. “Having a machine learning model registry is becoming an essential part of the machine learning technology stack.

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Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the commercial incentives of the companies building them. The application form went live this afternoon.

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Some frank advice for open-source startups seeking product-market fit

TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Successful companies such as Hashicorp, JFrog, Elastic, MongoDB and Gitlab have demonstrated the power of open source models. Effectively, open source startups need to build two product road maps and companies. Effectively, open source startups need to build two product road maps and companies.

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LinkedIn open sources lakehouse tool OpenHouse

InfoWorld

MARCH 8, 2024

LinkedIn has decided to open source its data management tool, OpenHouse, which it says can help data engineers and related data infrastructure teams in an enterprise to reduce their product engineering effort and decrease the time required to deploy products or applications.

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Gaming Goodness: NVIDIA Reveals Latest Neural Rendering and AI Advancements Supercharging Game Development at GDC 2025

NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Plus, the open-source NVIDIA RTX Remix modding platform has now been released, and NVIDIA ACE technology enhancements are bringing to life next-generation digital humans and AI agents for games.

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Meet Crowd.dev, an open source user-led growth platform for fostering developer communities

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Now, another new company has entered the community-led growth fray with a slightly different approach to the existing players, one focused on developer communities and with open source at its core. The open source factor. Transitioning to an open source platform may hold other benefits, too. million ($2.2

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Application framework.NET 8 will improve cloud and Linux support

TechSpot

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A few months after releasing.NET 7, Microsoft is already working on the next version of its open-source, managed framework for software and app development.NET 8 will be finalized at the end of 2023, so there's still plenty of time for developers to adapt and digest all the changes. Read Entire Article

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High-risk open source vulnerabilities on the rise, Synopsys reports

InfoWorld

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Nearly three-quarters of codebases assessed for risk by Synopsis in 2023 contained open source components with high-risk vulnerabilities, according to a just-released report from the company, a provider of application security testing tools.

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CipherMode Labs launches open source solution to protect data without encryption expertise

TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

They created an open source library, called CipherCore, which they are launching today. This new tool allows researchers to protect data without cryptographic expertise by simply pointing to the data source by writing some code. The startup is working on a commercial version they expect to be ready some time later this year.

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GitLab-spinoff Meltano raises another $8.2M for its open-source DataOps platform

TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

As Meltano CEO and GitLab veteran Douwe Maan told me, the original idea behind Meltano was to build an end-to-end data platform, but then the team narrowed its focus back to ELT again between 2020 and 2021, with the Singer open-source ELT tool as its core component. Now, with this new funding as a basis and the launch of Meltano 2.0

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Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic to commercialize with cloud services

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7 and Europe.

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Streamlit nabs $35M Series B to expand machine learning platform

TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

As a company founded by data scientists, Streamlit may be in a unique position to develop tooling to help companies build machine learning applications. For starters, it developed an open-source project, but today the startup announced an expanded beta of a new commercial offering and $35 million in Series B funding.

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IBM previews watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java Applications

InfoWorld

MAY 21, 2024

IBM has previewed its upcoming watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java Applications at its annual Think conference. To read this article in full, please click here

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Jetpack.io helps developers focus on applications instead of infrastructure

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

But when he was at his last job running engineering at Virta Health, he noticed that his developer team had to work hard deploying infrastructure, and it distracted them from their primary job building applications. The first piece to emerge from that idea is called Devbox , an open source development environment tool based on Nix.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS pricing strategies, 2022 open source report, can Vine regrow?

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

I heard the application fees for many visas and green cards are going to increase substantially. The Team Slide is the most important slide in a startup pitch deck Which open source startups rocketed in 2022? ” Which open source startups rocketed in 2022? . When will those increases go into effect?

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DataStax updates tools for building gen AI applications

InfoWorld

JUNE 25, 2024

DataStax is updating its tools for building generative AI-based applications in an effort to ease and accelerate application development for enterprises, databases, and service providers. One of these tools is Langflow , which DataStax acquired in April. To read this article in full, please click here

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Help us celebrate software developers who create open source apps and tools that nonprofit and advocacy groups can put to good use

Charity Village

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest honours the life and legacy of Antonio “Tony” Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing. Tony never had a chance to fulfill his computing dreams, so the prize was created to help others realize theirs.

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KataOS is Google's new operating system for machine learning applications

TechSpot

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The company's newest experiment is KataOS, a highly secure open-source operating system. As Stadia recently showed, Google is always working on new "experimental" technologies even if there's a chance they will fail in the most pitiful ways.

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Building a maintainable and modular LLM application stack with Hamilton

Towards Data Science

JULY 13, 2023

Building a maintainable and modular LLM application stack with Hamilton in 13 minutes LLM Applications are dataflows, use a tool specifically designed to express them LLM stacks. Hamilton is great for describing any type of dataflow , which is exactly what you’re doing when building an LLM powered application. Stack overview.

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

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

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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

Webinars

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

Massive Foundation Model for Biomolecular Sciences Now Available via NVIDIA BioNeMo

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

Facebook, Instagram beta testing Community Notes in the U.S.

Which open source startups rocketed in 2022?

OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

A Gentle Introduction to OpenCV: An Open Source Library for Computer Vision and Machine Learning

Oligo raises $28M to secure open-source libraries at runtime

NVIDIA Releases NIM Microservices to Safeguard Applications for Agentic AI

Meet Budibase, a low-code open-source web app builder with automations

Open source startups have a natural growth model: PLG

How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

Speckle snags $5.5M seed to build open source platform for 3D drawings

LibreCAD is an open source alternative to AutoCAD

Qdrant, an open source vector database startup, wants to help AI developers leverage unstructured data

Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

Open Source Vizier: Towards reliable and flexible hyperparameter and blackbox optimization

ARMO raises $30M to build an end-to-end open source Kubernetes security platform

Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications

AtomicJar opens public beta of Testcontainers Cloud, cloud version of open source testing tool

Prisma raises $40M for its open source ‘Rosetta stone’ for database languages

The 10 most innovative computing companies of 2025

Iterative launches MLEM, an open-source tool to simplify ML model deployment

Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems

Some frank advice for open-source startups seeking product-market fit

LinkedIn open sources lakehouse tool OpenHouse

Gaming Goodness: NVIDIA Reveals Latest Neural Rendering and AI Advancements Supercharging Game Development at GDC 2025

Meet Crowd.dev, an open source user-led growth platform for fostering developer communities

Application framework.NET 8 will improve cloud and Linux support

High-risk open source vulnerabilities on the rise, Synopsys reports

CipherMode Labs launches open source solution to protect data without encryption expertise

GitLab-spinoff Meltano raises another $8.2M for its open-source DataOps platform

Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic to commercialize with cloud services

Streamlit nabs $35M Series B to expand machine learning platform

IBM previews watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java Applications

Jetpack.io helps developers focus on applications instead of infrastructure

TechCrunch+ roundup: SaaS pricing strategies, 2022 open source report, can Vine regrow?

DataStax updates tools for building gen AI applications

Help us celebrate software developers who create open source apps and tools that nonprofit and advocacy groups can put to good use

KataOS is Google's new operating system for machine learning applications

Building a maintainable and modular LLM application stack with Hamilton

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