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Cost, security, and flexibility: the business case for open source gen AI

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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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OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

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In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as translation from those languages into English. Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning.

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SAP publishes open source manifesto

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It’s an open secret that even proprietary software contains open source components these days, and major vendors are, to varying extents, supporting or participating in open source projects. SAP’s manifesto is in reaction to the fact that all is not always sunshine and roses in the open source world.

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NetApp acquires Instaclustr to deliver open source databases as a service

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Companies producing software are becoming ever more reliant on open source databases to build their programs, but it’s complex working with all these different products. Instaclustr , a California startup, wanted to change that by offering popular open source databases delivered as a service.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. The topics covered include: Using Cassandra as if it were a Relational Database.

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4 tactics for building robust open source DevOps toolsets

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And it turns out that many popular DevOps tools, such as Prometheus, Argo, Grafana, KubeFlow and Jenkins, are open source software (OSS). Before adding an OSS project to your DevOps toolset, make sure to perform a full audit: How many contributors does the project have? Pick active, backed projects.

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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.

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Ultimate Guide to the Cloud Data Lake Engine

Cloud data lake engines aspire to deliver performance and efficiency breakthroughs that make the data lake a viable new home for many mainstream BI workloads. The six primary criteria for evaluating the different open source and commercial cloud data lake engine options. What workloads are suitable for cloud data lake engines.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Join Travis Addair, CTO of Predibase, and Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI, in this exclusive webinar to learn: How guardrails can be used to mitigate risks and enhance the safety and efficiency of LLMs, delving into specific techniques and advanced control mechanisms that enable developers to optimize model performance effectively (..)