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Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems

TechCrunch

But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the commercial incentives of the companies building them. Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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Appsmith raises $8M to take on the internal corporate app market with open source code

TechCrunch

Appsmith , which provides open source software that helps companies quickly build internal applications, announced an $8 million Series A round of funding this morning. Instead, Appsmith targets traditional developers with its service, which provides user-interface components that can be connected to business data sources.

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Amid Twitter chaos, Mastodon grew donations 488% in 2022, reached 1.8M monthly active users

TechCrunch

Consumer interest in open source, decentralized social networking isn’t something that was only reflected in news headlines over the past year, it’s also apparent in the financials behind Mastodon.

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PionerasDev wins IBM Open Source Community Grant to increase women’s participation in programming

DevOps.com

By Todd Moore, Guillermo Miranda Last fall, IBM’s open source community announced a new quarterly grant to award nonprofit organizations that are dedicated to education, inclusiveness, and skill-building for women, underrepresented minorities, and underserved communities in the open source world.

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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

Adida’s new company, which he publicly announced at the Context Conversations event here Monday evening, which The Parallax co-sponsored, is the nonprofit VotingWorks. VotingWorks, Adida told the Context Conversations audience, will “build open-source voting machines on commodity hardware. Adida said.

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AI2 open sources text-generating AI models — and the data used to train them

Ooda Loop

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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OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, a startup attempts a humanoid robot, and Salesforce turns it around

TechCrunch

New nonprofit for AI: A community-driven AI research group, EleutherAI , is forming a nonprofit foundation. But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity?

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