TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Team Slide is the most important slide in a startup pitch deck Which open source startups rocketed in 2022? Image Credits: Swillklitch / Getty Images In its yearly report ranking the fastest-growing commercial open source startups (COSS), Runa Capital looked at funding trends in the sector.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The Wall Street Journal reports a group of investors led by Musk's xAI submitted an unsolicited offer to the company's board of directors on Monday. Elon Musk has launched a $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI. The group wants to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI's for-profit arm. No thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74

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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

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 5, 2022

That’s because the open source tool is built on a graph database to allow the system to build semantic connections between documents, whether notes, research, information or PDF markups. The company only launched the tool in open source in October, but reports that large organizations like Google, Meta and MIT have been using Logseq.

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Engadget

APRIL 17, 2025

Following a report that detailed 35 cases involving Discord in which adults were prosecuted on charges like "kidnapping, grooming or sexual assault," the company introduced its Family Center tool, which lets adults track what their children do on the app. We dispute the claims in the lawsuit and look forward to defending the action in court.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The EU — those guys who ensured we ended up with cookie banners on every damn website you’ve ever visited — are back at it with a new initiative that could have some major-league unintended consequences on open source software, Kyle reports. million, Annie reports. What do you call suburban justice?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Now, another new company has entered the community-led growth fray with a slightly different approach to the existing players, one focused on developer communities and with open source at its core. The open source factor. Transitioning to an open source platform may hold other benefits, too. million ($2.2

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

Source: 2016 Charitable Giving Report. Source: Dunham+Company. Source: 2016 Luminate Online Benchmark Report. Source: 2016 Donor Loyalty Study. Source: 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report. Source: 2017 Benchmarks Study. Email and social media are the first apps opened.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

He released Unleash as open source on GitHub the following year and nurtured the project for the next several years as he continued working at his day job as an engineer. He found that over time, companies began requesting enterprise features for the tool, and he saw an opening for a commercial venture.

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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

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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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Counts for each are reported using task definitions from the respective works. Note that the number of tasks and examples vary under different assumptions and so are approximations.

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VentureBeat

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Perplexity shattered the artificial intelligence markets status quo today by launching Deep Research, a tool that generates comprehensive research reports in minutes and opens advanced AI capabilities to users at a fraction of typical enterprise costs. Thankful for open source! Were going to keep

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 16, 2024

Measure and report your data quality with ease Continue reading on Towards Data Science »

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

One area focused on within the report is the current state of Android malware. "It It is an open source system with many vendors having their own Android versions (with their own vulnerabilities and patching problems)," Eset security awareness specialist Ondrej Kubovi? told The Register.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2021

US soldiers stationed in Europe may have accidentally exposed information about the United States’ nuclear weapons stockpile when they used flashcard apps to help them remember details about the information, according to a report from open-source intelligence outlet Bellingcat.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Techspot reported on Log4J over the weekend after it was discovered last week. Since Friday, the open-source software's use has become a pandemic in its own right. Security firm Check Point has been monitoring the situation and, at one point, were seeing more than 100 Log4J attacks per minute.

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InfoWorld

MAY 1, 2024

Along with releasing Python specialists , Google also has laid off Flutter and Dart teams according to various reports. Flutter is an open source framework for building multi-platform applications from a single codebase. Google did not respond this morning to InfoWorld's inquiry about Flutter and Dart layoffs.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that multi-hyphenate billionaire Elon Musk was leading a massive $97.4 Since then, Musk has filed several lawsuits against the ChatGPT maker, claiming that it had lost track of its "open-source" roots, and instead becoming beholden to corporate incentives and multibillion-dollar deals.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Following Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of the platform, Travis Brown‘s research figured heavily in reporting that painted X, formerly Twitter, in an unflattering light. Brown worked on open source […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2021

The possibility of bugs slipping through is well-known in the open-source software community. Kernel developer Laura Abbot countered this in a blog post , saying that the possibility of bugs slipping through is well-known in the open-source software community.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Explosion , a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. The round was led by SignalFire, and the company reported that today’s investment represents 5% of its value.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

A new report from Endeavor Nigeria reveals that Africa’s digital economy and tech ecosystem is set to experience exponential growth periods. The report is dubbed “The Inflection Point: Africa’s Digital Economy is Poised to Take Off.”. The organization’s report intends to shed more light on Africa’s market dynamics.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. However, 83% of developers report burnout , according to research from Haystack, so be careful to set realistic expectations for your software developers. Lorna Mitchell.

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

18, Baidu released its fourth-quarter earnings report , showing a 2% year-over-year decline in overall revenue, totaling RMB 34.1 According to the report, the drop comes amid challenges in online marketing revenue, which totaled RMB17.9 Baidu has stated that DeepSeek’s success has inspired the open source move.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Tracking the explosive growth of open-source software. The Money In Open-Source Software. In the wings are other B2B super-unicorns like Databricks* and UiPath, which have each raised private financing rounds at valuations of more than $20 billion, per public reports, which is unprecedented in the software industry.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

The design also requires users to include a link, adding a layer of credibility to the note (although the link may not be a reliable source). Meta uses an Xs open-source algorithmwhich may evolve later as they learn more about how it all really works, Meta saysto determine whether the note is helpful and unbiased.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Streamlit is a startup that developed a popular open source project for building data-based apps. milestone for open source data app building tool. Snowflake stock is down almost 23% in after-hours trading after reporting slowing revenue growth. Streamlit reaches 1.0 Snowflake launched in 2012 and raised $1.4

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

Proctorio, a piece of exam surveillance software designed to keep students from cheating while taking tests, relies on open-source software that has a history of racial bias issues, according to a report by Motherboard. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Webiny , an early-stage startup that launched in 2019 with an open-source, serverless CMS, had also developed a framework to help build the CMS, and found that customers were also interested in that to help build their own serverless apps. Webiny announces $348K seed to build open-source serverless CMS.

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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. But Stability AI argues that open-sourcing is in fact the right approach, in fact. make up) facts.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

It is worth noting that Nvidia has far fewer than 71,000 employees — its last annual report lists 18,975 employees across 29 countries, though it’s possible the compromised email addresses include prior employees and aliases for groups of employees. Companies that rely heavily on email often have a lot of mailing lists.)

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

According to the 2024 AI Index report from the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, 149 foundation models were published in 2023, more than double the number released in 2022. In a 2021 paper, researchers reported that foundation models are finding a wide array of uses.

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