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

TechCrunch

As for Re, he’s co-founded various startups, including SambaNova , which builds hardware and integrated systems for AI. 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.”

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

TechCrunch

Software is just like any other product you build and ship; it relies on using components that others have built, often in the form of source code, and making sure that it doesn’t break or have weaknesses that compromise the final product. That also means a reliance on trusting that the developers will always act in good faith.

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

TechCrunch

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. ” The open source factor. . ” The open source factor.

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Daily Crunch: PSG, Battery Ventures invest $100M in open source password manager Bitwarden 

TechCrunch

The EU — those guys who ensured we ended up with cookie banners on every damn website you’ve ever visited — are back at it with a new initiative that could have some major-league unintended consequences on open source software, Kyle reports. Lawn and order : Dominic-Madori reports that JusticeText raises $2.2

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Five big open source gifts from us

David Heinemeier Hansson

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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Browser-based hardware design tool Flux raises $12M

TechCrunch

Flux cites both the explosion of remote work (which won’t be going away any time soon) and ongoing hardware constraints, such as the chip shortage, as major drivers in the interest surrounding its technology. The world has changed dramatically since the first commercial chip developers opened shop in the 1970s and 80s.

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Luos is building an API to help embedded engineers connect easily to any hardware component

TechCrunch

Luos , a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield competition this week, wants to make it easy for embedded hardware developers to connect to any hardware component, such as a motor or sensor, then build a reusable configuration profile to give them the same type of flexibility that software engineers have with microservices.

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