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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.

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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

TechCrunch

For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model. The three-year-old Chinese startup, which builds open source software for processing unstructured data, recently closed a Series B round of $43 million.

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

TechCrunch

“Together is spearheading AI’s ‘Linux moment’ by providing an open ecosystem across compute and best in class foundation models,” Lux Capital’s Brandon Reeves told TechCrunch via email. The number of open source models both from community groups and large labs grows by the day , practically.

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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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How to deploy software to Linux-based IoT devices at scale

InfoWorld

The internet of things (IoT) has transformed the way we interact with the world, connecting a myriad of devices to the internet, from smart thermostats in our homes to industrial sensors in manufacturing plants. In this article, we’ll explore some best practices for deploying software on large fleets of Linux-based IoT devices.

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Mozilla leads Mastodon app Mammoth’s pre-seed funding

TechCrunch

The latter was impacted by Elon Musk’s Twitter API changes which put an end to third-party Twitter clients , prompting Mehboob to turn his attention to the decentralized and open source Twitter alternative Mastodon. In ’99, Decrem worked on a Linux startup called Eazel which aimed to make Linux easier to use.

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Kinsing Malware Hides Itself as a Manual Page and Targets Cloud Servers

Tenable

Kinsing is a notorious malware family active for several years, primarily targeting Linux-based cloud infrastructure. Apache Tomcat is an open source server that provides static data (like images and other static content), which makes it fully accessible from the internet, making it an attractive attack surface.

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