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There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open source developer community

TechCrunch

The tech industry has made a full 180-degree turn with regard to open source in the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic , a major commercial backer of open source content management system WordPress. Even true believers can be shocked by the extent to which open source has succeeded. “To

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5 ways to deploy your own large language model

CIO

According to a September survey of IT decision makers by Dell, 76% say gen AI will have a “significant if not transformative” impact on their organizations, and most expect to see meaningful results within the next 12 months. The company primarily uses ChromaDB, an open-source vector store, whose primary use is for LLMs.

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Regulatory uncertainty overshadows gen AI despite pace of adoption

CIO

It’s no surprise, then, that according to a June KPMG survey, uncertainty about the regulatory environment was the top barrier to implementing gen AI. If I’m an energy company, I want to make it possible for folks to leverage geologic surveys and reports that are miserable to go through.” That includes cybersecurity risks.

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Percona Live 2023 Event Recap

Datavail

Percona Live 2023 was an exciting open-source database event that brought together industry experts, database administrators, data engineers, and IT leadership. Percona Live 2023 Session Highlights The three days of the event were packed with interesting open-source database sessions! Here are a few highlights.

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CoreWeave, a GPU-focused cloud compute provider, lands $221M investment

TechCrunch

“Our clients include generative AI companies, like Tarteel AI and Anlatan, the creators of NovelAI, and we’ve supported a range of open source AI and machine learning projects like EleutherAI and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion,” Intrator told TechCrunch in an email interview. For perspective, AWS made $80.1

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO

Open-source AI Open source has long been a driver of innovation in the AI space. Many data science tools and base models are open source, or are based heavily on open-source projects. So did Amazon on AWS. The oversight piece hasn’t been figured out yet.”

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Protect AI lands a $13.5M investment to harden AI projects from attack

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Swanson and Dehghanpisheh previously worked together at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on the AI and machine learning side of the business; Swanson was the worldwide leader at AWS’s AI customer solutions team and Dehghanpisheh was the global leader for machine learning solution architects.