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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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Speckle snags $5.5M seed to build open source platform for 3D drawings

TechCrunch

They wanted to make it easier by building an open source platform to exchange and collaborate on these files. “It’s coupled by an awful lot of political hurdles as well. And what we do is we break that open by allowing people to essentially talk with each other in real time using 3D.

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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

TechCrunch

With Together, Prakash, Zhang, Re and Liang are seeking to create open source generative AI models and services that, in their words, “help organizations incorporate AI into their production applications.” Google Cloud, AWS, Azure). Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).

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Discover, Protect and Respond with AWS and Prisma Cloud

Prisma Clud

Organizations are increasingly turning to cloud providers, like Amazon Web Services (AWS), to address these challenges and power their digital transformation initiatives. However, the vastness of AWS environments and the ease of spinning up new resources and services can lead to cloud sprawl and ongoing security risks.

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Introducing AWS MCP Servers for code assistants (Part 1)

AWS Machine Learning - AI

Were excited to announce the open source release of AWS MCP Servers for code assistants a suite of specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that bring Amazon Web Services (AWS) best practices directly to your development workflow. This post is the first in a series covering AWS MCP Servers.

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There’s nothing Automattic about balancing commercial growth with an open source developer community

TechCrunch

The tech industry has made a full 180-degree turn with regard to open source in the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic , a major commercial backer of open source content management system WordPress. Even true believers can be shocked by the extent to which open source has succeeded. “To

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Principal Financial Group uses QnABot on AWS and Amazon Q Business to enhance workforce productivity with generative AI

AWS Machine Learning - AI

With the QnABot on AWS (QnABot), integrated with Microsoft Azure Entra ID access controls, Principal launched an intelligent self-service solution rooted in generative AI. Principal also used the AWS open source repository Lex Web UI to build a frontend chat interface with Principal branding.