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Zilliz raises $43 million as investors rush to China’s open source software

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For years, founders and investors in China had little interest in open source software because it did not seem like the most viable business model. The three-year-old Chinese startup, which builds open source software for processing unstructured data, recently closed a Series B round of $43 million.

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Open source project Tea is brew2 for web3

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Open source code is integral to tech stacks at many large companies, but its authors rarely get recognized — let alone compensated — for their work. . Max Howell claims the package manager software he created, Homebrew, is the most contributed-to open source software program in the world. Image Credits: Tea.

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

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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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OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet

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OpenAI’s viral AI-powered chatbot, ChatGPT , can now browse the internet — in certain cases. OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the bot’s functionality by granting it access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web.

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Open Source & Open Standards: Navigating the Intricacies of a Symbiotic Partnership

Speaker: Guy Martin, Executive Director of OASIS Open

Our worldwide society has continued to operate and thrive due to foundational technologies like the Internet. Something all of these technologies have in common is that they are open standards with robust open-source implementations. How to address challenges and find common ground between the communities.

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

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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.” The number of open source models both from community groups and large labs grows by the day , practically.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

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Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.