TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

The company has been building an open source library for natural language processing (NLP) technologies. Overall, around 5,000 companies are using Hugging Face in one way or another, including Microsoft with its search engine Bing. You can find the Transformers library on GitHub — it has 42,000 stars and 10,000 forks.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

It’s often said that large language models (LLMs) along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT are a black box, and certainly, there’s some truth to that. The engineers behind it stress that it’s in the early stages, but the code to run it is available in open source on GitHub as of this morning.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Three months later I had a prototype platform aggregating actions from RSS feeds, with a search element around that content. The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they’re open source, some of these companies will let you join in on the fun of collaboration too.

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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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Tanmay Chopra Contributor Share on Twitter Tanmay Chopra works in machine learning at AI search startup Neeva , where he wrangles language models large and small. Last summer could only be described as an “AI summer,” especially with large language models making an explosive entrance.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building process. ” Being open source, of course, is also a big part of MergeStat’s flexibility promise.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Co-founder and CEO Matt Welsh describes it as the first enterprise-focused platform-as-a-service for building experiences with large language models (LLMs). Google Calendar) and public data sources (e.g. Natural language can act as a lingua franca for diverse computing systems to talk to each other.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

That is what SeMI Technologies is building with Weaviate, a vector search engine. It is a unique type of AI-first database using machine learning models outputting vectors, also known as embeddings, hence the name vector search engine, said Bob van Luijt, SeMI’s CEO and co-founder. Small notes on big news. SeMI raised a $1.2

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They said transformer models , large language models (LLMs), vision language models (VLMs) and other neural networks still being built are part of an important new category they dubbed foundation models. Then it applied the technology to its search engine so users could ask questions in simple sentences.

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Machine Learning, predictive modeling, and natural language processing are a few of the ways AI makes data more meaningful. Several providers offer open source or limited free access, which is a great way to test options. RapidMiner is another open-source platform with a drag-and-drop interface.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Mass surveillance of what Internet users are looking at underpins Google’s dominant search engine and Facebook’s social empire, to name two of the highest profile ad-funded business models. Berlin-based Xayn wants to change this dynamic — starting with personalized but privacy-safe web search on smartphones.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The plugin retrieves content from the web using the Bing search API and shows any websites it visited in crafting an answer, citing its sources in ChatGPT’s responses. This gives search engines a lot of power over the data that might inform web-connected language models’ answers. Meta’s since-disbanded BlenderBot 3.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 22, 2013

The user—or someone they designate—can later retrieve their data, and can search, analyze and report on the information, using the Martus client software. That’s why all of the software work done by Benetech and our technology development partners on Martus is open source: where the software’s source code is open for inspection.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

DeepSeek-R1 is an open model with state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities. Instead of offering direct responses, reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1 perform multiple inference passes over a query, conducting chain-of-thought, consensus and search methods to generate the best answer.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Natural language processing (NLP), the field of AI that involves parsing text for tasks including summarization and generation, is a fast-growing technology. Originally created for search applications, the framework can power engines that answer specific questions (e.g. Fortune Business Insights pegged the NLP market at $16.53

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Baidu is developing AI-based search features for Apple to enhance both image and text processing and improve the Chinese-language Siri experience as part of Apples “China Intelligence” initiative, sources said. series later this year, which will be fully open source. [

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

The company’s solution combines open source with a SaaS offering. “So So we have two things that are open source: we have this engine, which is kind of like a Google search for code. The investors approached them, according to company CEO and founder Isaac Evans.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

This morning r2c , a startup building a SaaS service around the Semgrep open-source project , announced that it has closed a $27 million Series B. Grep is a tool for searching through plain-text that has been around for decades. There are many ways to generate revenue from open-source software.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Prog.ai , as the company is called, allows recruiters to search for developers based on their technical skills, libraries they have used or simply the contributions they have made to projects on GitHub. search example. Founded out of San Francisco in 2022, Prog.ai “This week we’re launching Prog.ai profile example.

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Google Research AI blog

JUNE 6, 2023

We fine-tuned a large language model to proactively suggest relevant visuals in open-vocabulary conversations using a dataset we curated for this purpose. We open sourced Visual Captions as part of the ARChat project, which is designed for rapid prototyping of augmented communication with real-time transcription.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

A core element of the company’s technology approach is the Open Policy Agent (OPA) open-source project, which is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ( CNCF ), which is also home to Kubernetes. Part of OPA is the Rego query language, which is used to structure security and authorization configuration policies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

BuildBuddy , whose software helps developers compile and test code quickly using a blend of open-source technology and proprietary tools, announced a funding round today worth $3.15 Google open-sourced the core of Blaze , which was named Bazel, an anagram of the original name.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. Their mother might be in one of those photos.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 7, 2016

Additionally, WordPress-related keywords get 37 million searches each month; the program is available in 40 different languages; and 22 percent of new U.S. Awe-inspiring to say the least, given the free and open-source content management system (CMS) is just over a decade old.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This growth underscores the increasing significance of AI-driven services as Baidu strategically shifts toward an open-source model with its ERNIE large language model. Baidu has stated that DeepSeek’s success has inspired the open source move. 14, Baidu announced that the ERNIE 4.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

federal department and its many law enforcement units, which said that the agencies often used cell-site simulators without obtaining the appropriate search warrants. But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity?

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 25, 2023

PaLM 2 Our next-generation large language model (LLM), PaLM 2 , is built on advances in compute-optimal scaling , scaled instruction-fine tuning and improved dataset mixture. PaLM 2 has advanced coding capabilities that enable it to find code errors and make suggestions in a number of different languages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

It can also translate your messages in multiple languages. For example, here are the results for a search of the word “nonprofit.” The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate and enhance the world’s visual language by serving as a portal to unique icon sets. Vizify :: vizify.com.

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TechNode

APRIL 17, 2024

Chinas search engine operator Baidu said Tuesday the number of users of its AI-driven ERNIE Bot has doubled to over 200 million in four months, declaring itself a leader in artificial intelligence, as competitors rush into the sector. The company also added that ERNIE now handles 200 million daily queries. Others, including startup 01.AI,

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 10, 2023

Posted by Malaya Jules, Program Manager, Google This week, the 61st annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), a premier conference covering a broad spectrum of research areas that are concerned with computational approaches to natural language, is taking place online.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Top Open-sourcing datasets and tools Engaging with the broader research community is a core part of our efforts to build a more collaborative ecosystem. We support the general advancement of ML and related research through the release of open-source code and datasets.

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2022

Researchers put AI normally used to search for helpful drugs into a kind of “bad actor” mode to show how easily it could be abused at a biological arms control conference. And a lot of it’s just going to be open source — which I fully support: the sharing of science, the sharing of data, the sharing of models.

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