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China banks on open source in AI cold war with US

CIO

Chinas largest tech giants such as Baidu and Tencent have been working on their own large language models (LLMs) for some time now, andthe unexpected debutof DeepSeek , despite numerous hardware sanctions, surprised even the most powerful AI companies from the West. [

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Socket lands $4.6M to audit and catch malicious open source code

TechCrunch

Software is just like any other product you build and ship; it relies on using components that others have built, often in the form of source code, and making sure that it doesn’t break or have weaknesses that compromise the final product. That also means a reliance on trusting that the developers will always act in good faith.

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

TechCrunch

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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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

TechCrunch

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. ” The open source factor. . ” The open source factor.

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Browser-based hardware design tool Flux raises $12M

TechCrunch

Flux cites both the explosion of remote work (which won’t be going away any time soon) and ongoing hardware constraints, such as the chip shortage, as major drivers in the interest surrounding its technology. The world has changed dramatically since the first commercial chip developers opened shop in the 1970s and 80s.

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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

The company, which currently is hosted by another nonprofit Adida declined to name in a conversation after the event that eventually will become its own 501(c)3 , has one goal: to build a secure, affordable, open-source voting machine for use in general, public elections. Adida said. But “it’s not happening.

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Daily Crunch: PSG, Battery Ventures invest $100M in open source password manager Bitwarden 

TechCrunch

The EU — those guys who ensured we ended up with cookie banners on every damn website you’ve ever visited — are back at it with a new initiative that could have some major-league unintended consequences on open source software, Kyle reports. Lawn and order : Dominic-Madori reports that JusticeText raises $2.2