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

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As for Re, he’s co-founded various startups, including SambaNova , which builds hardware and integrated systems for AI. 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.”

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Microsoft acquires Fungible, a maker of data processing units, to bolster Azure

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In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. ” A DPU is a dedicated piece of hardware designed to handle certain data processing tasks, including security and network routing for data traffic. .”

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Google’s AI innovations at Cloud Next 2025: What CIOs need to know

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During his one hour forty minute-keynote, Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud showcased updates around most of the companys offerings, including new large language models (LLMs) , a new AI accelerator chip, new open source frameworks around agents, and updates to its data analytics, databases, and productivity tools and services among others.

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Distributed Postgres goes full open source with Citus: why, what & how

The Citus Data

A few months ago we made Citus fully open source. Contrary to folks who say that Postgres is a monolith that can’t scale—Postgres in fact has a fully open source solution for distributed scale, one that’s also native to Postgres. Why make the final pieces of Citus open source now? It’s called Citus !

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To cope with stricter data regulation, enterprises should look to fully open APIs

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Jean-Paul Smets is the CEO of Rapid.Space , a hyper open cloud provider offering virtual private servers (VPS), content delivery networks (CDN) and global IPv6 (SDN). Picture this scenario as a young enterprise: You are a customer of Azure, AWS, or the Google Cloud Platform, assuming they are the frontrunners.

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Scaling out Postgres with the Citus open source shard rebalancer

The Citus Data

One of the big changes in Citus 10 —in addition to adding columnar storage , and the new ability to shard Postgres on a single Citus node—is that we open sourced the shard rebalancer. Yes, that’s right, we have open sourced the shard rebalancer! And now that—big news!—we’ve

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Azure container Apps: The future of Microservices in Azure?

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Their aim when building Azure Container Apps was to create an opinionated way of deploying containerized workloads to Azure that brings several features that Kubernetes could provide without having to manage a cluster: autoscaling, zero downtime deployments and traffic shaping with control over ingress.

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