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

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Adobe just released the last Flash update ever

The Verge

Adobe has released the final scheduled update to its Flash Player plugin, weeks before Flash’s official retirement. As noted on Adobe’s site , yesterday marked the last update for Flash outside mainland China, which has a separate version of the software. Adobe offered a brief farewell in its release notes. “We

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Amazon shifts Lumberyard to open source 3D game engine supported by 20 companies

Venture Beast

Amazon is contributing its Lumberyard game engine to open source, and it will be known as the Open 3D Engine. Read More.

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Amazon's Lumberyard goes open source, it's now called Open 3D Engine, gets wider support

TechSpot

The Open 3D Foundation results from the collaboration of various developers, aiming to support open-source projects designed to improve the capabilities of 3D graphics, rendering, authoring, and development.

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GIMP is the open source Adobe Photoshop alternative

TechSpot

Available for Windows, Linux, and macOS, GIMP is a free photo editing tool with the ability to have masks, layers, color adjustments, and a huge library of plug-ins.

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Working with PDF files on Linux

Network World

The PDF (portable document format) standard was created in the 1990s by Adobe cofounder John Warnock to make it possible for people to share reliably formatted documents across a wide range of platforms. It became an open ISO standard in 2015. Today, you can save documents as PDF files from many applications (e.g., using a PDF editor).

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Some Photoshop users can try Adobe’s anti-misinformation system later this year

The Verge

Adobe has released more details on its Content Authenticity Initiative, a system for permanently attaching sources and details to an image. It’s set for a limited debut on Adobe’s Photoshop software and Behance social network by the end of 2020, and Adobe hopes for wider adoption soon after.

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