TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

NetBox Labs , a new open source startup spun out of VC-backed network automation company NS1 back in January , today announced it has raised $20 million in a Series A round of funding from a slew of high-profile investors.

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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. For AutoML researchers, OSS Vizier is also outfitted with a useful collection of algorithms and benchmarks (i.e.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

T, December 10th, the international community is observing Human Rights Day to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders. This past year, our HRP team helped the human rights movement achieve great things.

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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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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Tea , an open source unified package manager for software developers, today announced it has added another $8.9 Tea is the brainchild of Max Howell , creator of popular open source package manager Homebrew , and Timothy Lewis. “Open source supply chain security is critical for many enterprises today.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Being able to share drawings with his child may have been an initial motivation for Qin, but he also wanted to build a tool for connecting his work documents in a kind of internal web that could be shared across any device, either for an individual or a team of users. “I Logseq stores inter-connected information in infinite graphs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Tyk , which has built a way for users to access and manage multiple internal enterprise APIs through a universal interface by way of GraphQL, has picked up $35 million, an investment that it will be using both for hiring and to continue enhancing and expanding the tools that it provides to users. 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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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

Google’s Jigsaw unit is releasing the code for an open source anti-harassment tool called Harassment Manager. It’s debuting as source code for developers to build on, then being launched as a functional application for Thomson Reuters Foundation journalists in June. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2013

At a recent Professional Publishers Association conference, Nicholas Coleridge, president of Condé Nast International, took the opportunity to urge the “stick-in-the-muds” at the ABC auditing body to include tablet edition sales in its figures as soon as possible, or risk making their figures increasingly irrelevant.

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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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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

MAY 3, 2022

When they started Graphite, originally as a mobile development tool company, they missed those tools they had at the bigger companies and began to build one to use internally. We actually built the first version of Graphite as an internal tool a little over a year ago. Graphite code review dashboard. Image Credits: Graphite.

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TechNode

APRIL 15, 2024

Open-source models make little sense according to Baidu CEO Robin Li in an internal company memo in which he argued that closed-source models have stronger capabilities, Chinese media outlets reported on Weekend. Lis comment comes as more models are made open source to the general public.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2013

That support includes the sharing of best practices in accessible book production, model agreements for readers with disabilities, and open source access technology for reading the books. That is the miracle of a robust website: it doesn’t cost much more for it to serve twice, or even ten times, as many people.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Chinese internet giant Tencent launched its Hunyuan large model yesterday, featuring 13 billion parameters, and open-sourced its video-generation capabilities, supporting both Chinese and English input. Enterprise clients can integrate the model through Tencent Cloud, with API access currently open for internal testing.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Airplane on Thursday launched runbooks, a developer tool for automating internal workflows, in private beta and on Product Hunt. With developers in mind, the pair wanted to give engineers back the time they were spending building internal tools and away from product engineering.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. Other times they would refuse to show us a product that a client was interested in because of an internal decision to promote product A over product B. Here my perspective.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 3, 2025

Wildlife Protection Solutions Help Preserve Endangered Species International nonprofit Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS) supports more than 250 conservation projects in 50+ countries. Wild Me supports over 2,000 researchers across the globe running AI-enabled wildlife population studies for marine and terrestrial species.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

” A decent chunk of developers’ time is spent on internal tooling, including building admin dashboards, report-generating systems and data pipelines. He’s the CEO of Superblocks , a recently launched platform that provides building blocks to create custom internal apps, workflows and scheduled jobs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Large national and international nonprofits are often ahead of the curve. Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. How well your nonprofit’s email and social media campaigns perform depend upon how well your website is designed.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As we observe the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery on December 2nd, it’s important to remember that modern slavery is a complex problem that takes many forms. A more recent estimate by the International Labour Organization suggests that there are now 50 million people in the world living as modern slaves.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

For the last several years, Appsmith has been quietly building an open source platform for internal development teams to build the custom apps they need. These applications are aimed to be used by internal team members and not external customers.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. DeepSeeks breakthroughs caused some angst, but its fresh thinking and openness will likely spur bigger and faster innovations from the worlds top AI companies by this time next year. People downloaded variants of the open-source Phi-3 more than 4.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. So, come join me. Be Helpful.

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

We’ve run into IT departments that prefer a Microsoft tech stack, while others prefer open source. Open source systems don’t have licensing fees, and hosting in a Linux environment is less expensive than hosting in a Microsoft environment. appeared first on Matrix Group International. We’d love to hear from you !

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

We’ve run into IT departments that prefer a Microsoft tech stack, while others prefer open source. Open source systems don’t have licensing fees, and hosting in a Linux environment is less expensive than hosting in a Microsoft environment. appeared first on Matrix Group International. We’d love to hear from you !

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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. His tech hobbies, including open source software, were inspired by his father’s job as a professional programmer, but Mullenweg didn’t yet seem certain about following his father’s profession.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. We also want to enable effective information sharing among agencies about what does and doesn’t work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 1, 2011

This portion was an internally focused effort based on conversations with our team. 4 We prefer open to proprietary (internal and external). Benetech seeks to be open internally and externally. We rely on open source tools for information exchange and development tools, as appropriate.

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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. In 2024, Quantinuum also partnered with HSBC, the first international bank to offer tokenized physical gold.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

A new Google Magenta project (created by an intern!) When you open Lo-Fi Player, you’re taken to a pixellated virtual “room” where you click different objects — a clock, a cat, or a piano, for instance— in the room to change the different tracks, like the bass line and the melody. Google Magenta.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world. Maintain and develop our team's internal groupware websites: a MoinMoin wiki, a rietveld code review deployment, and several small custom sites built on Django.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

APIs provide a way for developers to connect their applications to other internal and external applications. Developers relied — and many continue to do so — on open-source CLI tools such as curl and HTTPie. But it’s a space that until the past decade not many firms have attempted to streamline.

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