TechSpot

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The startup's focus is providing language model solutions released through open-source licenses, so that AI can become "useful" to anyone with no need to spend huge amounts of money or pay to access. Mistral is a new AI company co-founded by former Google and Meta alumni valued at $260 million. Read Entire Article

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Ars Technica

APRIL 7, 2025

On Saturday, Meta released its newest Llama 4 multimodal AI models in a surprise weekend move that caught some AI experts off guard. But so far the open-weights models have received an initial mixed-to-negative reception from the AI community, highlighting a familiar tension between AI marketing and user experience. "The

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VentureBeat

MARCH 12, 2025

Google's Gemma 3 is multimodal, comes in four sizes and can now handle more information and instructions thanks to a larger context window. Read More

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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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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

AI with the vision to develop a homegrown large language model for the Chinese market. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Kai-Fu Lee, the computer scientist known in the West for his bestseller AI Superpowers and in China for his bets on artificial intelligence unicorns, has a new venture — and a great ambition. All rights reserved.

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VentureBeat

MARCH 26, 2025

An updated version of the MCP spec introduced key upgrades to make AI agents more secure, capable and interoperable. Read More

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

“Together is spearheading AI’s ‘Linux moment’ by providing an open ecosystem across compute and best in class foundation models,” Lux Capital’s Brandon Reeves told TechCrunch via email. Current cloud offerings, with closed-source models and data, do not meet their requirements.”

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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. “[The models] show strong ASR results in ~10 languages.

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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. Using MLEM, developers can store and track their ML models throughout their lifecycle. ” Image Credits: Iterative.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Like the prolific jazz trumpeter and composer, researchers have been generating AI models at a feverish pace, exploring new architectures and use cases. In a 2021 paper, researchers reported that foundation models are finding a wide array of uses. Earlier neural networks were narrowly tuned for specific tasks. See chart below.)

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ITPro Today

MARCH 28, 2025

Open source software may be free to use, but creating and maintaining it often incurs significant costs. Here are four approaches to paying for open source software development.

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Machine Learning Mastery

APRIL 24, 2023

Last Updated on May 1, 2023 Predictive modeling with deep learning is a skill that modern developers need to know. PyTorch is the premier open-source deep learning framework developed and maintained by Facebook.

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

While many of today's AAA titles are free-to-play, they come with insidious pay-to-win models where gamers are lured in by microtransactions and loot boxes. Indie titles offer a minor reprieve from these greedy cash-grabs, but free-to-play, in the strictest sense of the term, only exists in open-source games.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal. “Developers care about that.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Long before most of us were thinking about large language models, DataCebo co-founders Kalyan Veeramachaneni and Neha Patki were creating an open source library called Synthetic Data Vault or SDV for short. The company’s roots go back to 2018 when both were working in the MIT Data Lab.

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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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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. That Qdrant has now raised $7.5

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For research, it has not only reduced language model latency for users , designed computer architectures , accelerated hardware , assisted protein discovery , and enhanced robotics , but also provided a reliable backend interface for users to search for neural architectures and evolve reinforcement learning algorithms. Search, Ads, YouTube).

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InfoWorld

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Meta has introduced Purple Llama, a project dedicated to creating open-source tools for developers to evaluate and boost the trustworthiness and safety of generative AI models before they are used publicly. To read this article in full, please click here

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TechSpot

MARCH 3, 2025

Last week, DeepSeek released five of its most advanced software repositories during its "Open Source Week" event. The Chinese AI firm unveiled a Linux-based file system it.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Previously, the stunning intelligence gains that led to chatbots such ChatGPT and Claude had come from supersizing models and the data and computing power used to train them. o1 required more time to produce answers than other models, but its answers were clearly better than those of non-reasoning models.

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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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InfoWorld

MARCH 25, 2024

Back in the 2000s, we talked about open source a lot—perhaps too much. We chastised companies for “open washing” (anticipating the years of cloud- and AI-washing to come). We debated “ open core ” business models. We fought about whether code freedom (GPL) or developer freedom (Apache/BSD) mattered more.

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VentureBeat

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

OctoTools plans, executes, and verifies LLM tool use, surpassing competitors with its unique modular architecture. Read More

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InfoWorld

APRIL 24, 2024

Cloud-based data warehouse company Snowflake has developed an open-source large language model (LLM), Arctic, to take on the likes of Meta’s Llama 3 , Mistral’s family of models, xAI’s Grok-1 , and Databricks’ DBRX. To read this article in full, please click here

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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. But it will also serve as the basis for Tea’s own business model.

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TechSpot

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Microsoft researchers recently introduced Muse, a generative AI model designed to extrapolate interactive video game scenarios from images, clips, and recorded player input. The tool aims to streamline game development while upholding ethical training practices.

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InfoWorld

APRIL 9, 2024

Google at Google Cloud Next 24 unveiled three open source projects for building and running generative AI models. The company also introduced new large language models to its MaxText project of JAX-built LLMs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Stability AI , the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion , today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended to go head to head with systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4. make up) facts. “This is expected to be improved with scale, better data, community feedback and optimization.”

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InfoWorld

MARCH 27, 2024

Data lakehouse provider Databricks has released a family of open-source large language models (LLM) , DBRX, that it says outperforms OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 and open-source models such as Mixtral, Claude 3, Llama 2 , and Grok-1 on standard benchmarking tests. To read this article in full, please click here

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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

MAY 12, 2023

Given the tremendous barrier to entry, is it worth considering whether open source foundation models could level the playing field and also address concerns about privacy and bias? Series A deck Ask Sophie: Can I apply for an EB-1A without first getting an O-1A? .

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Posted by Shayne Longpre, Student Researcher, and Adam Roberts, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Language models are now capable of performing many new natural language processing (NLP) tasks by reading instructions, often that they hadn’t seen before.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

David is passionate about open-source and infrastructure software and previously worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley. The answer is the hamburger model. In the hamburger GTM model, your product is the meat. The hamburger model. David Cahn. Contributor. More posts by this contributor.

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VentureBeat

MARCH 17, 2025

Baidu has also announced plans to integrate ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 into its broader ecosystem, including Baidu Search and the Wenxiaoyan app. Read More

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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. Even for data scientists, it’s difficult to know why, always, a model responds in the way it does, like inventing facts out of whole cloth.

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