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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.

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Socket lands $4.6M to audit and catch malicious open source code

TechCrunch

Securing the software supply chain is admittedly somewhat of a dry topic, but knowing which components and code go into your everyday devices and appliances is a critical part of the software development process that billions of people rely on every day. That also means a reliance on trusting that the developers will always act in good faith.

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Los Angeles IT secures the vote with open source and the cloud

CIO

Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.

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Making GenAI more cost-efficient and accessible with open-source LLMs

Agile Engine

Open-source large language models (LLMs) have improved significantly in the past twelve months in terms of performance, developer experience, and community support. Let’s explore what advantages can make open-source LLMs a viable solution for your company in 2024. That’s where open-source LLMs come into play.

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Heartex raises $25M for its AI-focused, open source data labeling platform

TechCrunch

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. ” Software developers Malyuk, Maxim Tkachenko, and Nikolay Lyubimov co-founded Heartex in 2019. Heartex’s dashboard.

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Frontend Debugging Is Bad and it Should Feel Bad

Honeycomb

There’s a sentence that strikes fear into the heart of every frontend developer I’ve ever met: Users are reporting issues, and we don’t know how to replicate them. If they have bugs or poor usability, all the business outcomes we’re working to enable suffer. How do I improve poor CWV scores? Do you cry?

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A small open-source story

Marcusoft

Back in 2010, I was very interested in BDD (Behaviour-driven Development) as a stepping stone into agile testing-thinking as a general great tool to foster better conversations. They sent a consultant to our team to see if we could make use of it. I want to emphasize that I’m not a good role model for open-source maintainers.