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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Jerry and I had a great conversation about open sourcing of agricultural scientific models, such as those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their climate change reports. Such efforts are necessary to address global nutritional needs in a world facing the challenges of climate change.

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

TechCrunch

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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AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”

Ars Technica

Leading artificial intelligence firms including OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta are turning to a process called distillation in the global race to create AI models that are cheaper for consumers and businesses to adopt.

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Massive Foundation Model for Biomolecular Sciences Now Available via NVIDIA BioNeMo

NVIDIA AI Blog

Evo 2 is available to global developers on the NVIDIA BioNeMo platform , including as an NVIDIA NIM microservice for easy, secure AI deployment. The NVIDIA NIM microservice for Evo 2 enables users to generate a variety of biological sequences, with settings to adjust model parameters.

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Socket lands $4.6M to audit and catch malicious open source code

TechCrunch

Software is just like any other product you build and ship; it relies on using components that others have built, often in the form of source code, and making sure that it doesn’t break or have weaknesses that compromise the final product. That also means a reliance on trusting that the developers will always act in good faith.

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Supabase raises $6M for its open-source Firebase alternative

TechCrunch

Supabase , a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue, with participation from YC, Mozilla and a group of about 20 angel investors. Some of them we built ourselves.

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Meet Delta Sharing: Access more data with secure, open source data sharing

Tableau

A process that typically takes 10 to 15 years took less than a year—due in part to global collaboration and data sharing. . Companies in similar fields want to collaborate on open data sets, such as enriched census data or machine learning (ML) training data sets. Introducing secure, open source data sharing .