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Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems

TechCrunch

But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the commercial incentives of the companies building them. Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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Appsmith raises $8M to take on the internal corporate app market with open source code

TechCrunch

Appsmith , which provides open source software that helps companies quickly build internal applications, announced an $8 million Series A round of funding this morning. Instead, Appsmith targets traditional developers with its service, which provides user-interface components that can be connected to business data sources.

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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

Adida’s new company, which he publicly announced at the Context Conversations event here Monday evening, which The Parallax co-sponsored, is the nonprofit VotingWorks. VotingWorks, Adida told the Context Conversations audience, will “build open-source voting machines on commodity hardware. Adida said.

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AI2 open sources text-generating AI models — and the data used to train them

Ooda Loop

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2), the nonprofit AI research institute founded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is releasing several GenAI language models it claims are more “open” than others — and, importantly, licensed in such a way that developers can use them unfettered for training, experimentation and even […]

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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

TechCrunch

Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. ” Meanwhile, Google.org, Google’s charitable arm, will provide $4.25 For example, U.S.

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Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Digital Infrastructure Project for Agriculture, Enables Global Collaboration Among Industry, Government and Academia

DevOps.com

AgStack Foundation will build and sustain the global data infrastructure for food and agriculture to help scale digital transformation and address climate change, rural engagement and food and water security SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.,

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Subak, which incubates data-for-climate not-for-profits, announces six startups in 2022 cohort

TechCrunch

based incubator focused on nonprofit startups that are addressing climate-related challenges through open-source data initiatives has announced the six startups which will be put through its 2022 program. Subak’s thesis is that open data is a key tool for tackling the climate crisis.

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