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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

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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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Supabase raises $6M for its open-source Firebase alternative

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Supabase , a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue, with participation from YC, Mozilla and a group of about 20 angel investors. Some of them we built ourselves.

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

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Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they’re open source, some of these companies will let you join in on the fun of collaboration too.

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Technology, Processes, and Culture: Red Hat’s Open-source Pathway to Successful Digital Transformation

CIO

To help such organisations navigate these waters, Red Hat Open Innovation Labs is designed to co-create with them. Labs provides a platform to experiment, iterate, and accelerate transformational initiatives by leveraging open-source technologies, fostering open leadership, and embracing a culture of innovation.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases.

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The Open-Source Philosophy

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Open-Source vs. Proprietary Software – What’s the Difference? To thoroughly grasp what open source is, one should understand what it is not. Open-source software grants its users a degree of accessibility that is not possible through its proprietary counterpart.

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10 highest-paying IT skills for 2024

CIO

These roles include data scientist, machine learning engineer, software engineer, research scientist, full-stack developer, deep learning engineer, software architect, and field programmable gate array (FPGA) engineer. Torch enables fast and efficient GPU support, focusing on improving flexibility and speed when building complex algorithms.