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

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“ Together team is committed to creating a vibrant open ecosystem that allows anyone from individuals to enterprises to participate.” Prakash previously founded social media search platform Topsy, which was acquired in 2013 by Apple, where he later became a senior director. Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).

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

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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. Don’t click on that : The Los Angeles School District, the second-largest in the U.S.,

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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

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WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. Automattic focused on media at a time when that industry was being demolished by the internet. The role also gave him an inside view of the internal systems of a large media organization.

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The ethical pros and cons of Meta’s new Llama 3 open-source AI model

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On Thursday, the social media giant announced Llama 3, the next version of its open-source model for the Meta AI assistant, which it hopes will make its chatbot the leading artificial intelligence technology. Meta has a brand-new Llama to show off. Putting aside the question of whether this latest large language […]

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Mastodon founder touts Threads’ federation, saying it makes his X rival ‘a far more attractive option’

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Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko lauds Threads’ entry into the decentralized social media space, saying the move will make Mastodon — the open source Twitter/X rival — “a far more attractive option.”

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Capsule gets $1.5M to build ‘super simple’ decentralized social media

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Capsule founder Nadim Kobeissi, a cryptography researcher who previously authored the open-source E2E-encrypted desktop chat app Cryptocat, says they’re on track to put out an MVP this month — once they’ve made a few tweaks to the infrastructure. “The prototype is ready,” he tells TechCrunch.

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