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DataCebo launches enterprise version of popular open source synthetic data library

TechCrunch

Long before most of us were thinking about large language models, DataCebo co-founders Kalyan Veeramachaneni and Neha Patki were creating an open source library called Synthetic Data Vault or SDV for short. The company’s roots go back to 2018 when both were working in the MIT Data Lab. All rights reserved.

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Alphabet’s Intrinsic acquires DARPA-backed firm behind open source robotics software

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Just a few months after buying fellow robotic software firm Vicarious , Alphabet-owned Intrinsic has acquired several divisions within Open Robotics , the company behind the widely-used robotics software packages Gazebo and Robotic Operating System (ROS). OSRC launched in September 2016 and together with OSRF became known as Open Robotics.

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PingCAP, the open-source developer behind TiDB, closes $270 million Series D

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PingCAP , the open-source software developer best known for NewSQL database TiDB, has raised a $270 million Series D. Its last round, a Series C of $50 million, was announced back in September 2018. The funding brings PingCAP’s total raised so far to $341.6

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Prisma raises $40M for its open source ‘Rosetta stone’ for database languages

TechCrunch

Its open-source-based Prisma ORM, launched last year, now has more than 150,000 developers using it for Node.js Schmidt said the plan is to increase investment in that open-source tool to bring on more users, with a view to building its first revenue-generating products. to continue growing.

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Commercializing the open-source FingerprintJS browser fingerprinting tech nabs Chicago entrepreneur $4M

TechCrunch

Chicago-based serial entrepreneur Dan Pinto has raised new cash and launched a new company looking to commercialize a years-old open-source project that purports to solve one of the web’s hardest problems — fraud prevention. The open source community was pivotal to our success thus far,” said Vasilyev, in a statement.

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How we hosted one of the most memorable open source hackathons of 2018

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Early 2018, we promised ourselves to create an environment which would bring a culture of positivity and change in the developer ecosystem. Open innovation is about combining internal and external resources to create efficient and beneficial solutions.” – Dr. Matt Chapman, Mindjet. Richa Rupela (@RitsyRicha) November 18, 2018.

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The Top 100 Java Libraries in 2018 – Based on 277,975 Source Files

OverOps

2018 edition. Big shout out to Guy Castel who helped us pull and crunch the numbers so we could present you with the top 100 Java libraries – 2018 edition. The top 20 Java libraries for 2018. The first two libraries we looked at are Mockito, an open source testing framework, and slf4j, the logging facade for Java.