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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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Patients may suffer from hallucinations of AI medical transcription tools

CIO

An AI-powered transcription tool widely used in the medical field, has been found to hallucinate text, posing potential risks to patient safety, according to a recent academic study. Although Whisper’s creators have claimed that the tool possesses “ human-level robustness and accuracy ,” multiple studies have shown otherwise.

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Serverless Stack raises $1M for open-source application framework

TechCrunch

Open-source framework startup Serverless Stack announced Friday that it raised $1 million in seed funding from a group of investors that includes Greylock Partners, SV Angel and Y Combinator. Where top VCs are investing in open source and dev tools (Part 1 of 2).

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Eclipse Foundation to Release Open Source IDE Infused with AI Agents

DevOps.com

The Eclipse Foundation today made available an alpha release of an instance of its open source Theia integrated development environment (IDE), that provides access to artificial intelligence (AI) agents that will automate a wide range of coding tasks on behalf of application developers.

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AtomicJar opens public beta of Testcontainers Cloud, cloud version of open source testing tool

TechCrunch

Richard North developed an open source solution called Testcontainers in 2015 to help ease this problem for developers. Today, the open source project is used by companies like Uber, Netflix, Spotify and Capital One. It gives developers a tool they can use. It’s a generic tool.

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OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

TechCrunch

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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Kestra is an open-source data orchestration platform for complex workflows

TechCrunch

Meet Kestra, a startup that has been working on an open-source project focused on data orchestration across several services, databases, files, repositories and warehouses. The open source project has attracted thousands of stars on GitHub, proving that there’s some interest and potential behind a new data orchestration platform.