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Google’s Gemma 3 is an open source, single-GPU AI with a 128K context window

Ars Technica

Google says the Gemma 3 open source model is the best in the world for running on a single GPU or AI accelerator. Google claims Gemma 3 will be able to tackle more challenging tasks compared to the older open source Google models. Most new AI models go bigmore parameters, more tokens, more everything.

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Elon Musk makes $97 billion bid for OpenAI, gets rejected

Mashable Tech

At its founding, OpenAI was initially meant to operate as a not-for-profit group with an open-source ethos. However, since ChatGPT exploded on the tech scene, Altman has sought to turn OpenAI into a for-profit company. Since then, the two have butted heads over the direction OpenAI has gone in. We will make sure that happens."

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

Ars Technica

The technique caught widespread attention after Chinas DeepSeek used it to build powerful and efficient AI models based on open source systems released by competitors Meta and Alibaba. Through distillation, companies take a large language modeldubbed a teacher modelwhich generates the next likely word in a sentence.

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OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

TechCrunch

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. Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning.

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Open source project Tea is brew2 for web3

TechCrunch

Open source code is integral to tech stacks at many large companies, but its authors rarely get recognized — let alone compensated — for their work. . Max Howell claims the package manager software he created, Homebrew, is the most contributed-to open source software program in the world.

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HashiCorp’s IPO will place it among the most richly valued open source tech companies

TechCrunch

The HashiCorp IPO intends to shoot the narrows between Thanksgiving and Christmas, with its first IPO pricing interval set to give it among the richest valuations of any technology company with a strong open source component to its core business. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. What’s HashiCorp worth?

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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

TechCrunch

Victoria Melnikova Contributor Share on Twitter Alongside fellow Evil Martians , Victoria Melnikova builds devtools and commercial open source products and writes about her journey in tech. But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity?