TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Just a few months after buying fellow robotic software firm Vicarious , Alphabet-owned Intrinsic has acquired several divisions within Open Robotics , the company behind the widely-used robotics software packages Gazebo and Robotic Operating System (ROS). doors and elevators). doors and elevators).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. ” The open source factor. . ” The open source factor.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Signers of any skill level can contribute by signing specific words to help build an open-source video dataset for ASL. Attendees of NVIDIA GTC , a global AI conference taking place March 17-21 in San Jose, will be able to participate in Signs live at the event. The dataset behind Signs is planned for release later this year.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

Second, the popularity of social networking is steady and continues to spread globally, but messaging apps such as WhatsApp, LINE, and Snapchat are emerging as powerful digital communities. Source: 2016 Donor Loyalty Study. Source: 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report. Source: 2017 Benchmarks Study.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

That’s why we love Random Hacks of Kindness Global: 2 days + 30 countries + 3000 geeks working on making the world a better, safer place. At RHoK Global in June 2012, we joined the RHoK Sustainability Project and invited participants to build solutions addressing challenges in accessibility or human rights, two core program areas at Benetech.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

million in funding to fuel the mission, as well as to support the continued growth of the open-source Conductor community. The rise of Orkes underscores a very common route these days for open source tools. “ Orkes has the right team to bring enterprise-grade support and cloud services to this thriving community.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). a11y accessibility Bookshare engineering executive Gerardo GoRead innovation open source Read2Go'

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

PingCAP , the open-source software developer best known for NewSQL database TiDB, has raised a $270 million Series D. The company plans to add more platforms, and part of the funding will be used to increase TiDB Cloud’s global user base. Cloud infrastructure revenue grows 33% this quarter to almost $33B.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. We’ve started chewing on the idea of secure user forums and other virtual watering holes to support the global network of users.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The nonpartisan think tank Brookings this week published a piece decrying the bloc’s regulation of open source AI, arguing it would create legal liability for general-purpose AI systems while simultaneously undermining their development. “In the end, the [E.U.’s] “In the end, the [E.U.’s]

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Tyk (pronounced like “tyke”, meaning small/lively child) got its start as an open source side project first for co-founder Martin Buhr, who is now the company’s CEO, while he was working elsewhere, as a “load testing thing,” in his words. It has raised just over $40 million to date.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Benetech, like many nonprofit organizations building open source software for social good, often relies upon the contributions of experienced software developers to help its solutions grow and scale. We envision a thriving community committed to leveraging technology for good and bridging sectors for lasting, transformative impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 6, 2013

Thanks for helping us find the right person for this key role at Benetech: it will make a difference to the global cause of human rights! and work often with people in miserable conditions (yes, in both places!); Why You Do Want this Job: All the above.

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Medium Technology Section

APRIL 3, 2025

How China Is Leveraging Open-Source AI to Compete, Innovate, and Overcome Tech Restrictions  Continue reading on Medium

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus , the popular open source vector database for similarity searches — raised $43 million to scale its business and prep the company to make a move into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The move plans to also contribute to Qiskit , an open-source SDK for quantum computers. In February this year, Algorithmiq announced a $4m seed round backed by investment from Tiger Global, K5 Global and various angel investors. Algorithmiq will therefore become part of the IBM Quantum Network.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Heartex, a startup that bills itself as an “open source” platform for data labeling, today announced that it landed $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. When asked, Heartex says that it doesn’t collect any customer data and open sources the core of its labeling platform for inspection.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Superconductive — a startup best known for creating and maintaining the Great Expectations open source data quality tool — has raised $40 million in a Series B round of funding. Tiger Global is leading the round, with previous backers Index, CRV, and Root Ventures also participating.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Data for Inclusion: Enabling people with disabilities to provide firsthand reports on the issues they face to inform policy at the local, national, and global level. Helped environmental leaders design, manage, monitor, and evaluate global conservation projects and campaigns with the first open source conservation project management tool.

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TechNode

MARCH 12, 2025

Manus announced a strategic partnership with Alibabas Qwen team on March 11, aiming to integrate all Manus functions into Chinese AI models and computing platforms based on Qwens open-source models. Alibaba confirmed the collaboration, stating its commitment to working with global AI innovators.

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TechNode

AUGUST 4, 2023

On Thursday, Alibabas cloud computing arm opened sources for its two AI models based on the companys large language model Tongyi Qianwen, becoming the first among Chinese tech giants to do so. This move is expected to further intensify global competition around open-source large models.

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ITPro Today

APRIL 16, 2025

Linux communities are at the heart of AI innovation, contributing to open source frameworks, optimizing hardware acceleration, and fostering global collaboration.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The term social enterprise is in common use globally to describe enterprises that have a social welfare intent. The social enterprise movement is a global one, so we hope that the measured approach of the USPTO to this application is echoed by peer trademark authorities in other countries. Social enterprise is descriptive.

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Medium Technology Section

MARCH 24, 2025

My Talk at George Washington University Continue reading on Medium

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Cloudsmith , a cloud platform for software supply chain management, has raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Tiger Global, which it claims is the largest-ever Series A funding round in Northern Ireland since 2005 (according to PitchBook data). The company plans to use the new funding to hire 60 new employees and expand its U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

It was introduced as an open-source library by Airbnb engineers six years ago and quickly became popular with app developers because Lottie files can be used across platforms without additional coding and edited after shipping. . The new funding brings its total raised to about $10 million.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2021

While it’s been possible for hosts to list Wi-Fi speeds or share screenshots of speed tests before, the new tool is integrated directly into Airbnb’s app (using M-Lab’s open-source software ) and allows for Wi-Fi speed to be displayed directly on a listing alongside other information about a property.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Jean-Paul Smets is the CEO of Rapid.Space , a hyper open cloud provider offering virtual private servers (VPS), content delivery networks (CDN) and global IPv6 (SDN). This is where fully open APIs based on open source software are a great help and the technology of the future. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Nicolai Peitersen, co-founder and executive chairman of Wikifactory said: “Wide-scale global collaboration to make physical things is happening both for open-source and for proprietary product development. The global manufacturing industry output, worth USD 35 trillion, is finally having its web moment.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. The company has 1,700 employees in a distributed, asynchronous, global workforce, and has raised nearly $1 billion, according to Crunchbase, most recently at a $7.5 billion valuation.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Following its 2023 unveiling of two of the largest quantum computers ever made, IBM expanded and upgraded its cloud quantum service and its open-source Qiskit quantum software platform in 2024. And in October, the company opened its first global quantum data center outside the U.S., in Ehningen, Germany.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

By applying multiple lightweight, specialized models as guardrails, developers can cover gaps that may occur when only more general global policies and protections exist as a one-size-fits-all approach doesnt properly secure and control complex agentic AI workflows.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Shaun O’Meara, global field CTO at Mirantis , has worked with customers designing and building enterprise IT infrastructure for 20 years. The end of open source? The use of open source software (OSS) has exploded, and many companies are using it as the cornerstone of their infrastructure. Shaun O’Meara.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The round also includes significant participation from existing investors Amadeus Capital Partners and Global Brain, with follow-on investment from other existing shareholders. Seldon has been able to build an impressive open-source community and add immediate productivity value to some of the world’s leading companies.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Onehouse emerged last year with a cloud data lake product built on top of the open source Apache Hudi project. Company founder and CEO Vinoth Chandar came up with the idea for Hudi while he was an engineer at Uber in 2016, and eventually decided to start a company based on the open source project.

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