Navigating The Generative AI Divide: Open-Source Vs. Closed-Source Solutions
Choosing between open-source and closed-source generative AI tools requires consideration of factors like customization, scalability, support, and security. [ more ]
Ines Montani at QCon London: Economies of Scale Can't Monopolise the AI Revolution
Open-source techniques and models enable widespread adoption in the AI space, challenging the traditional notion of monopolies based on economies of scale. [ more ]
Venture capital funding for open source has slowed down, leading to a need for companies to justify themselves and adopt real business models.
Events like FOSDEM serve as microcosms of the open-source community, highlighting key themes such as AI, environmental impact, sustainability, governance, and data. [ more ]
Microsoft and IBM release source code for one of the weirdest versions of MS-DOS
Microsoft open-sourced MS-DOS 4.00, distinct from the anticipated multitasking version. Multitasking became a focus in subsequent Windows and OS/2 releases, not MS-DOS. [ more ]
Penpot's CSS Grid Layout: Designing With Superpowers - Smashing Magazine
Penpot offers an open-source design tool based on open web standards, focusing on efficiency and collaboration among designers and developers. [ more ]
Why Elon Musk's AI company 'open-sourcing' Grok matters - and why it doesn't | TechCrunch
Releasing Grok as open source sets xAI against OpenAI, but the impact on AI development is mixed. Grok competes with models like GPT-3.5, offering a unique tone and more data access. Making AI models 'open source' differs from traditional software due to complexity and data issues. [ more ]
Decentralized AI faces technical challenges in terms of compute and data networks.
Key trends for decentralized AI include open-source generative AI, inference game focus, scalable Web3 infrastructures, and adapting foundation models. [ more ]
Inside the Creation of the World's Most Powerful Open Source AI Model
Databricks released DBRX, a powerful open source large language model surpassing other popular AI models like Meta's Llama 2 and Mistral's Mixtral. [ more ]
Apple releases an AI model that can edit images based on text-based commands
Apple has released an open source AI model for image editing that uses multimodal large language models to interpret text-based commands.
The model, called MLLM-Guided Image Editing (MGIE), can edit photos based on the text the user types in and can also crop, resize, and rotate photos and improve brightness, contrast, and color balance.
Apple has not yet indicated whether it will incorporate this technology into any of its products. [ more ]
Spotify's getting serious about its enterprise and dev tools business play | TechCrunch
Spotify's Backstage platform, introduced in 2016, was made open source in 2020, and has been monetized since 2022. They offer enterprise support and services. [ more ]
Swell is a versatile open-source API testing tool with wide support for various endpoints and technologies, offering features like stress testing and mock server creation. [ more ]
Airbnb Open-Sources its ML Feature Platform Chronon
Chronon, an open-source platform by Airbnb, streamlines data management for ML practitioners by supporting a variety of data sources and providing low-latency streaming features. [ more ]
Databricks claims its open source LLM outsmarts GPT-3.5
Databricks launches open-source LLM - DBRX, developed by Mosaic AI, optimized for efficiency with MoE architecture. Outperforms OpenAI's GPT-3.5 in language, programming, math.
DBRX boasts 132 billion parameters but only 36 billion active at once, offering near-instantaneous responses; Databricks provides it for free on GitHub and Hugging Face for customer improvement. [ more ]
Kraken Releases Own Crypto Wallet, Joining Competition With Coinbase, MetaMask
Kraken launching its own wallet, emphasizing privacy and open-source code, aims to compete with Coinbase and other major players in the crypto space. [ more ]
"The key is irregularity": This Arabic font is made to accommodate dyslexic readers
Consistency in fonts does not help readability for dyslexic individuals.
Irregularities in font design, such as varying inner spaces and larger nuqtas and tashkeels, can enhance readability for dyslexic individuals. [ more ]
Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork | TechCrunch
Valkey is a fork of Redis backed by AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap.
Redis faced licensing disputes over the years leading to the creation of Valkey as a response to the adoption of the more restrictive Server Side Public License (SSPL). [ more ]
Why Sequoia is funding open source developers via a new equity-free fellowship | TechCrunch
Sequoia Capital plans to fund up to three open source software developers annually through the Sequoia Open Source Fellowship program.
The fellowship provides a stipend to cover costs for up to a year so developers can work full-time on their projects without giving up equity or ownership. [ more ]
Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services
Nitter, an open source project that provided an alternative front-end to Twitter, has shut down due to changes made by Twitter that closed off all possible ways to access the Twitter network without a user account.
Twitter blocked Nitter's access to their network and imposed new API restrictions, causing the project to struggle for months and ultimately shut down.
Nitter was designed to maintain users' privacy and shield them from tracking and ads, but Twitter worked hard to limit access they couldn't monetize. [ more ]
Mark Zuckerberg blasted as 'irresponsible' over plans to make advanced AI 'widely available'
Mark Zuckerberg plans to make advanced AI tools widely available despite concerns about the potential risks of misuse.
Experts warn that open-sourcing AI could exacerbate risks such as misinformation, election meddling, job losses, and loss of control over society. [ more ]
.NET MAUI Community Toolkit 7.0.0 Aligns to .NET 8
Microsoft announced version 7.0.0 of the MAUI Community Toolkit, adding support for .NET 8 and bug fixes.
MAUI is an evolution of Xamarin and Xamarin Forms frameworks, unifying separate target libraries and projects into a single project for multiple devices. [ more ]