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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

CIO

To solve the problem, the company turned to gen AI and decided to use both commercial and open source models. So we augment with open source, he says. Right now, the company is using the French-built Mistral open source model. Open source models also offer companies more flexibility in when to upgrade.

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VS Code’s Open Source AI Revolution: A New Chapter for Developers

DevOps.com

Microsoft’s VS Code team has taken a bold step toward democratizing AI-powered coding by open-sourcing its GitHub Copilot Chat extension under the MIT license. Until now, developers have been using powerful AI tools without understanding their inner workings, from prompt engineering techniques to context handling strategies.

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Cloud Native and Open Source Help Scale Agentic AI Workflows

The New Stack

Cloud Native Architectures: Kubernetes and FaaS The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ecosystem provides robust tools that enable efficient and scalable AI deployments. It is conformant with the CNCF’s open source Kubernetes, and the example below should also work using that.

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Open-source skills can save your career when AI comes knocking

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

At the Open Source Summit North America  in Denver, the Linux Foundation released its 2025 State of Tech Talent report , revealing that upskilling and open source will address the demands of an AI-driven workforce.  Companies with open-source cultures report stronger employee retention and skill development.

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Patients may suffer from hallucinations of AI medical transcription tools

CIO

An AI-powered transcription tool widely used in the medical field, has been found to hallucinate text, posing potential risks to patient safety, according to a recent academic study. Although Whisper’s creators have claimed that the tool possesses “ human-level robustness and accuracy ,” multiple studies have shown otherwise.

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Kestra is an open-source data orchestration platform for complex workflows

TechCrunch

Meet Kestra, a startup that has been working on an open-source project focused on data orchestration across several services, databases, files, repositories and warehouses. The open source project has attracted thousands of stars on GitHub, proving that there’s some interest and potential behind a new data orchestration platform.

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Eclipse Foundation to Release Open Source IDE Infused with AI Agents

DevOps.com

The Eclipse Foundation today made available an alpha release of an instance of its open source Theia integrated development environment (IDE), that provides access to artificial intelligence (AI) agents that will automate a wide range of coding tasks on behalf of application developers.