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

CIO

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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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO

Vendors are adding gen AI across the board to enterprise software products, and AI developers havent been idle this year either. 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.

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The year’s top 10 enterprise AI trends — so far

CIO

AI vendor management Only the biggest companies are going to build or manage their own AI models, and even those will rely on vendors to provide most of the AI they use. Open-source AI Open source has long been a driver of innovation in the AI space.

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

CIO

While on-prem, open-source LLMs were considered, they’d require significant investment in infrastructure and might not offer the same level of versatility as commercial models like GPT-4,” he says. Vendor management Gen AI is more than just choosing between a free, insecure, public chatbot and a private, controlled one.

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Weighing risk and reward with gen AI vendor selection

CIO

Other respondents said they aren’t using any generative AI models, are building their own, or are using an open-source alternative. There are multiple vendors offering these AI super-apps, he says, and the hyperscalers are also rolling out their own options. LangChain is the best-known open source option in this space.

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What enterprise software vendors are doing with generative AI

CIO

It can connect the data to a variety of LLMs, open source, or proprietary, the company said. Artificial Intelligence, CIO, Generative AI, IT Leadership, Vendor Management, Vendors and Providers The two companies are jointly developing LLMs and generative AI capabilities , they said.

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9 trends to watch in systems engineering and operations

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It does have a lot going for it, though—namely, that it’s open source and portable between cloud providers. A recent O’Reilly survey found that less than 40% of respondents have actually implemented Kubernetes, suggesting that the hype currently outweighs the reality.