Agile Engine

APRIL 15, 2024

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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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

The founders of Speckle , an early-stage startup based in London, are both trained architects and engineers, probably a rare combination. They wanted to make it easier by building an open source platform to exchange and collaborate on these files. ” The two founders began looking at this problem in 2015. .

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DevOps.com

MAY 16, 2022

The post New Training Course Explores Ethics in Open Source Development appeared first on DevOps.com.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

MLOps platform Iterative , which announced a $20 million Series A round almost exactly a year ago, today launched MLEM, an open-source git-based machine learning model management and deployment tool. Using MLEM, developers can store and track their ML models throughout their lifecycle.

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Github

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

First released in 2005, Git was still a new open source version control system when we founded GitHub. Today, Git is a foundational element of the modern developer experience—93% of developers use it to build and deploy software everywhere 1. 2 Developers are operating cloud-native applications at scale.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

Jorge Torres is CEO and co-founder of MindsDB , an open source AI layer for existing databases. Adam Carrigan is a co-founder and COO of MindsDB , an open source AI layer for existing databases. Open-source software gave birth to a slew of useful software in recent years. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The nonpartisan think tank Brookings this week published a piece decrying the bloc’s regulation of open source AI, arguing it would create legal liability for general-purpose AI systems while simultaneously undermining their development. “In the end, the [E.U.’s] “In the end, the [E.U.’s]

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

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. When asked, Heartex says that it doesn’t collect any customer data and open sources the core of its labeling platform for inspection.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Generative AI companies continue to raise huge amounts of capital to fuel their commercial — and, in some cases, open source — ambitions. See Together, a startup creating open source generative AI and AI model development infrastructure, which today announced that it closed a $102.5

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David Heinemeier Hansson

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Perhaps our most productive one yet, in terms of total number of product improvements, new product developments, and open source extractions. Before I get into the actual open source gifts we were able to share this year, though, I think it’s important to remark on the fact that 37signals is not an open-source software company.

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CIO

MAY 17, 2023

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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Mentormate

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In a world dominated by headlines featuring proprietary models, open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) revolutionize industries and democratize AI access In this blog post, we delve into this unfolding narrative, demonstrating the potential of open-source LLMs and their role in shaping the future of AI-driven success.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Two companies behind popular AI art tools, Midjourney and Stability AI, are entangled in a legal case that alleges they infringed on the rights of millions of artists by training their tools on web-scraped images. During Adato’s Ph.D. “I realized that there’s a real business use case for this,” Adato said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Natural language processing ( NLP ), while hardly a new discipline, has catapulted into the public consciousness these past few months thanks in large part to the generative AI hype train that is ChatGPT. The company also says that its basic open source incarnation has been used by data scientists at companies such as Samsung and DocuSign.

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Ooda Loop

APRIL 9, 2024

A year ago, a San Francisco gathering many called the “Woodstock of AI” brought together 5,000 devotees of “open-source” AI models—that is, where the underlying code, and sometimes the model weights and training methods, are publicly available for researchers and developers to build on.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Imposter syndrome—doubting your abilities to the point that you feel like a fraud—is an evergreen topic of conversation among software developers. In this moment, how can tech leaders empower their developers? For many devs, the explosion of GenAI and AI-powered coding tools makes feeling like an imposter more inevitable than ever.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

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 ”

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Tenable

MAY 24, 2024

Plus, open source developers have a new platform to share threat intelligence. Called Siren, the platform is hosted by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and aims to provide visibility into the tactics, techniques and procedures, as well as into the indicators of compromise associated with attacks targeting OSS.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

With the rise in popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI tools like ChatGPT, developers have found use cases to mold text in different ways for use cases ranging from writing emails to summarizing articles. Apart from indie developers, major tech companies are also taking a crack at the text-to-music generation problem.

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CIO

DECEMBER 1, 2022

For businesses struggling to compete for tech talent, investing in your current talent through upskilling and training initiatives can provide invaluable returns, as many IT leaders are finding. Oftentimes, workers are pushed to meet skills gaps without the necessary training, setting the employee and business up for potential failure.

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Firemon

OCTOBER 10, 2023

We are big supporters of open-source security tools and even employ some of them ourselves. Going Free Instead of OSS When we made the decision to contribute to the community, we contemplated open-sourcing all or part of our platform. We’re not attempting to compete with open-source CSPM.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. I have worked remotely in technology for over a decade, and I’ll share my tips for how fast-paced technical startups can take good care of their software development talent.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Developing and deploying successful AI can be an expensive process with a high risk of failure. So, does every enterprise need to build a dedicated AI development team and a supercomputer to train their own AI models? Here are six tips for developing and deploying AI without huge investments in expert staff or exotic hardware.

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CIO

APRIL 12, 2024

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.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Plus, open source security experts huddled at a conference this week – find out what they talked about. Those are some of the initiatives the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) plans to undertake in the coming year, the group announced at its “Secure Open Source Software Summit 2023” held in Washington, D.C.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

The legal spats between artists and the companies training AI on their artwork show no sign of abating. Generative AI models “learn” to create art, code and more by “training” on sample images and text, usually scraped indiscriminately from the web. By late April, that figure had eclipsed 1 billion.

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CIO

JANUARY 9, 2024

Given the importance of being able to control data access and respect privacy and regulatory concerns while harnessing GenAI’s tremendous potential, Dell Technologies and Intel have been investigating GenAI implementations, open-source models, and alternatives to trillion-plus parameter models. million in compute alone 2.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Tetrate , the company commercializing an open-source networking project that allows for easier data sharing across different applications, has raised $40 million. The round, led by Sapphire Ventures , underscores the importance of the Istio project and just how critical services that facilitate cross-platform data sharing have become.

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Ooda Loop

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Webiny , an early-stage startup that launched in 2019 with an open-source, serverless CMS, had also developed a framework to help build the CMS, and found that customers were also interested in that to help build their own serverless apps. million seed round to continue developing both pieces.

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DevOps.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), an arm of the Linux Foundation, is providing free security training for developers building and employing open source software starting later this week as part of an overall effort to advance best DevSecOps practices.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 28, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) are generally trained on large publicly available datasets that are domain agnostic. For example, Meta’s Llama models are trained on datasets such as CommonCrawl , C4 , Wikipedia, and ArXiv. The resulting LLM outperforms LLMs trained on non-domain-specific datasets when tested on finance-specific tasks.

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d2iq

JULY 11, 2022

The common misconception of open-source Kubernetes is that it is free—but in reality, it has a lot of associated costs, including labor and potential business losses from wasted time, effort, and being late to market. Assembling and managing a Kubernetes platform requires highly skilled Kubernetes architects, engineers, and developers.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

But if you ask the co-founders of Modular , a startup emerging from stealth today, the software used to develop it is “monolithic,” fractured into silos piled with layers of complexity.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Reentering society after years in prison is difficult for many reasons, among which perhaps the most prosaic is simply that it’s hard to get a job — and what training and transition programs exist are far from sufficient. “There’s already money for training, but it’s under-utilized,” explained Saruhashi.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Stability AI , the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion , today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended to go head to head with systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4. But Stability AI claims it created a custom training set that expands the size of the standard Pile by 3x. make up) facts. .”

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CIO

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The most popular LLMs in the enterprise today are ChatGPT and other OpenAI GPT models, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama 2, and Falcon, an open-source model from the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi best known for its support for languages other than English. Dig Security addresses this possibility in two ways.

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