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Ai2 releases new language models competitive with Meta’s Llama

There’s a new AI model family on the block, and it’s one of the few that can be reproduced from scratch. On Tuesday,...

These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and surveillance

There is immense power in being in control of your own data. As ownership and governance of apps and online services consolidate, it’s...

A Chinese lab has released a ‘reasoning’ AI model to rival OpenAI’s o1

A Chinese lab has unveiled what appears to be one of the first “reasoning” AI models to rival OpenAI’s o1. On Wednesday, DeepSeek, an...

Dapr graduates to become a CNCF top-level project

Dapr, the Microsoft-incubated open source runtime for helping developers build secure and resilient distributed applications, has graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s...

Open source projects draw equity-free funding from corporates, startups, and even VCs

A dearth of funding for vital open source technologies is leading to a swath of support from startups, unicorns, corporations, and even venture...

Meta releases an ‘open’ version of Google’s podcast generator

Meta has released an “open” implementation of the viral generate-a-podcast feature in Google’s NotebookLM. Called NotebookLlama, the project uses Meta’s own Llama models...

Joseph Jacks bets on open source startups, a ‘paradox of philanthropy and capitalism’

Open source might be many things, but one thing it’s not is a business model — by most estimations, at least. However, that...

Open source BI platform Lightdash gets Accel’s backing to bring AI to business intelligence

Lightdash, a business intelligence (BI) platform and open source alternative to Google’s Looker, is lifting the lid on a new product that allows...

OpenStack is ready for the VMware refugees

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has left a lot of customers uneasy (and with rising bills). For the longest time, VMware was the de...

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