TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

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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CIO

MAY 15, 2024

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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Ooda Loop

DECEMBER 20, 2024

On Thursday, a large group of university and private industry researchers unveiled Genesis, a new open source computer simulation system that lets robots practice tasks in simulated reality 430,000 times faster than in the real world. Researchers can also use an AI agent to generate 3D physics simulations from text prompts.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the commercial incentives of the companies building them. billion parameters) — using ServiceNow’s in-house graphics card cluster.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

MLOps platform Iterative , which announced a $20 million Series A round almost exactly a year ago, today launched MLEM, an open-source git-based machine learning model management and deployment tool. For highly regulated industries, a system like this also offers a single source of truth for figuring out the lineage of a given model.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The nonpartisan think tank Brookings this week published a piece decrying the bloc’s regulation of open source AI, arguing it would create legal liability for general-purpose AI systems while simultaneously undermining their development. “In the end, the [E.U.’s] “In the end, the [E.U.’s]

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

APRIL 10, 2025

Training a frontier model is highly compute-intensive, requiring a distributed system of hundreds, or thousands, of accelerated instances running for several weeks or months to complete a single job. For example, pre-training the Llama 3 70B model with 15 trillion training tokens took 6.5 During the training of Llama 3.1

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CIO

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Open source has seen a great deal of momentum among mainframers, making collaboration easier and providing greater transparency. But for all of its benefits, open source is not without risks. By its very nature, open-source code is accessible to whoever wants to see it—including potential attackers.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Now, another new company has entered the community-led growth fray with a slightly different approach to the existing players, one focused on developer communities and with open source at its core. The open source factor. Transitioning to an open source platform may hold other benefits, too. million ($2.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Given the tremendous barrier to entry, is it worth considering whether open source foundation models could level the playing field and also address concerns about privacy and bias?

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Heartex, a startup that bills itself as an “open source” platform for data labeling, today announced that it landed $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. When asked, Heartex says that it doesn’t collect any customer data and open sources the core of its labeling platform for inspection.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. ” Meanwhile, Google.org, Google’s charitable arm, will provide $4.25 ”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Generative AI companies continue to raise huge amounts of capital to fuel their commercial — and, in some cases, open source — ambitions. See Together, a startup creating open source generative AI and AI model development infrastructure, which today announced that it closed a $102.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Two companies behind popular AI art tools, Midjourney and Stability AI, are entangled in a legal case that alleges they infringed on the rights of millions of artists by training their tools on web-scraped images. Bria isn’t the only venture exploring a revenue-sharing business model for generative AI.

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CIO

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In these cases, the AI sometimes fabricated unrelated phrases, such as “Thank you for watching!” — likely due to its training on a large dataset of YouTube videos. million downloads on the open-source AI platform HuggingFace in the past month, Whisper has become one of the most popular speech recognition models. With over 4.2

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CIO

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

With those tools involved, users can build new AI models on relatively low-powered machines, saving heavy-duty units for the compute-intensive process of model training. In other cases, the model might scan and process open-source data.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It’s only as good as the models and data used to train it, so there is a need for sourcing and ingesting ever-larger data troves. But annotating and manipulating that training data takes a lot of time and money, slowing down the work or overall effectiveness, and maybe both. V7’s specific USP is automation.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Explosion , a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. Since then, that open source project has been downloaded over 40 million times. .

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Check out a new framework for better securing open source projects. 1 - New cybersecurity framework for open source projects Heres the latest industry effort aimed at boosting open-source software security. Plus, learn how AI is making ransomware harder to detect and mitigate.

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CIO

MARCH 31, 2025

There are two main considerations associated with the fundamentals of sovereign AI: 1) Control of the algorithms and the data on the basis of which the AI is trained and developed; and 2) the sovereignty of the infrastructure on which the AI resides and operates.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

You pull an open-source large language model (LLM) to train on your corporate data so that the marketing team can build better assets, and the customer service team can provide customer-facing chatbots. And all of that data is stored on premises, but your training is taking place on the cloud where your GPUs live.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion , today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. Image Credits: Daniel Jeffries.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Different ways to customize an LLM include fine-tuning an off-the-shelf model or building a custom one using an open-source LLM like Meta ’s Llama. Vertical-specific training data Does the startup have access to a large volume of proprietary, vertical-specific data to train its LLMs?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

The legal spats between artists and the companies training AI on their artwork show no sign of abating. Generative AI models “learn” to create art, code and more by “training” on sample images and text, usually scraped indiscriminately from the web. By late April, that figure had eclipsed 1 billion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Reentering society after years in prison is difficult for many reasons, among which perhaps the most prosaic is simply that it’s hard to get a job — and what training and transition programs exist are far from sufficient. “There’s already money for training, but it’s under-utilized,” explained Saruhashi.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

. “[We are] introducing a database for AI, specifically a storage layer that helps to very efficiently store the data and then stream this to machine learning applications or training models to do computer vision, audio processing, NLP (natural language processing) and so on,” Buniatyan explained. Activeloop image database.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Stability AI , the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion , today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended to go head to head with systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4. But Stability AI claims it created a custom training set that expands the size of the standard Pile by 3x. make up) facts.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Google is open-sourcing SynthID, a system for watermarking text so AI-generated documents can be traced to the LLM that generated them. Unlike many of Mistral’s previous small models, these are not open source. This model is based on the open source Llama, and it’s relatively small (70B parameters).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Webiny , an early-stage startup that launched in 2019 with an open-source, serverless CMS, had also developed a framework to help build the CMS, and found that customers were also interested in that to help build their own serverless apps. Webiny announces $348K seed to build open-source serverless CMS.

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Tenable

JUNE 28, 2024

Check out why memory vulnerabilities are widespread in open source projects. The agencies analyzed 172 projects that the Open Source Security Foundation has identified as being critically important in the open source ecosystem. And learn how confidential data from U.S. And much more!

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The Crazy Programmer

JUNE 14, 2024

It uses OpenAI’s Codex, a language model trained on a vast amount of code from public repositories on GitHub. Cons Privacy Concerns : Since it is trained on public repositories, there may be concerns about code privacy and intellectual property. Open Source : Being open-source, it is freely available for use and customization.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Natural language processing ( NLP ), while hardly a new discipline, has catapulted into the public consciousness these past few months thanks in large part to the generative AI hype train that is ChatGPT. The company also says that its basic open source incarnation has been used by data scientists at companies such as Samsung and DocuSign.

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JANUARY 20, 2025

LLM or large language models are deep learning models trained on vast amounts of linguistic data so they understand and respond in natural language (human-like texts). It is an open-source model that offers extensive fine-tuning capabilities using reinforcement learning (based on human response).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. Some companies offer generous training budgets or time off. Many developers give much of their time to open source projects. Lessons from open source.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Key to its success is that its open-source project Seldon Core has more than 700,000 models deployed to date, drastically reducing friction for users deploying ML models. Seldon has been able to build an impressive open-source community and add immediate productivity value to some of the world’s leading companies.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Weve also seen the emergence of agentic AI, multi-modal AI, reasoning AI, and open-source AI projects that rival those of the biggest commercial vendors. Developers must comply by the start of 2026, meaning theyll have a little over a year to put systems in place to track the provenance of their training data.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Onehouse emerged last year with a cloud data lake product built on top of the open source Apache Hudi project. Company founder and CEO Vinoth Chandar came up with the idea for Hudi while he was an engineer at Uber in 2016, and eventually decided to start a company based on the open source project.

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