article thumbnail

Qdrant, an open source vector database startup, wants to help AI developers leverage unstructured data

TechCrunch

Founded out of Berlin in 2021, Qdrant is targeting AI software developers with an open source vector search engine and database for unstructured data, which is an integral part of AI application development particularly as it relates to using real-time data that hasn’t been categorized or labeled.

article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Heartex raises $25M for its AI-focused, open source data labeling platform

TechCrunch

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. ” Software developers Malyuk, Maxim Tkachenko, and Nikolay Lyubimov co-founded Heartex in 2019.

article thumbnail

IT leaders look beyond LLMs for gen AI needs

CIO

Along with code-generating copilots and text-to-image generators, which leverage a combination of LLMs and diffusion processing, LLMs are at the core of most generative AI experimentation in business today. In 2023, it was really dominated by models with text and code,” Chandrasekaran says. It’s fabulous.”

article thumbnail

Cybersecurity Snapshot: Get the Latest on Deepfake Threats, Open Source Risks, AI System Security and Ransomware Gangs

Tenable

Plus, open source security experts huddled at a conference this week – find out what they talked about. Attackers use these maliciously crafted videos, photos and audio to create societal unrest, carry out fraud and damage reputations of individuals and brands. Tasked with securing your org’s new AI systems? And much more!

article thumbnail

Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO

Take for example French multinational Carrefour, who used it to make digital avatars and videos. Suddenly, you can create engaging customer-facing videos at the click of a button,” says Oliver Banks, retail consultant and author of Driving Retail Transformation: How to navigate disruption and change. And software code is a language.”