TechSpot

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Mistral is a new AI company co-founded by former Google and Meta alumni valued at $260 million. The startup's focus is providing language model solutions released through open-source licenses, so that AI can become "useful" to anyone with no need to spend huge amounts of money or pay to access. Read Entire Article

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Computerworld Vertical IT

MARCH 28, 2024

Essentially, all software is built using open source. By Synopsys' count, 96% of all codebases contain open-source software. Lately, though, there's been a very disturbing trend.

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SPF13

MARCH 20, 2015

In the last few years open source has transformed the software industry. From Android to Wikipedia, open source is everywhere, but how does one succeed in it? What Every Successful Open Source Project Needs. Open Source Companies • Redhat $13B • Cloudera $3B • MongoDB $1.6B • Docker $.5B

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TechSpot

AUGUST 3, 2023

Meta recently launched AudioCraft, its framework to generate "high-quality," realistic audio and music, with an open-source license. While some progress has already been made in this area, the company acknowledges. Read Entire Article

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CTOvision

AUGUST 13, 2016

Open source software is critical to the modern enterprise software landscape. Alluxio is open source under the Apache license, and we are committed to maintaining this model. Alluxio is one of the fastest growing open source projects in the Big Data ecosystem. Alluxio, Inc.

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Dataconomy

MARCH 26, 2024

Runa Capital’s ROSS Index highlights the growing market for AI and open-source technologies, tracking the rapid expansion of this sector. These efforts showcase the diverse, evolving nature of AI and open-source ventures. It reflects an increasingly vibrant ecosystem fueled by technological advancements.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. As a result, VMware customers can no longer purchase perpetual licenses or just the ESXi hypervisor on its own.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Google is ending development on the virtual reality painting app Tilt Brush — one of the most well-known VR applications — and making it open source. Tilt Brush’s code can be accessed on GitHub now , but Google says some features had to be removed from the open-source release because of licensing restrictions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The same thing could happen with software code, even though companies don’t typically share their source code, he says. The same goes for open-source stuff. A lot of open-source programs are meant for non-commercial use only. Does the output infringe something that someone else has done?”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Meta also has a veto on competitors using Llama for anything too big: The Llama 3.2

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CTOvision

JANUARY 25, 2016

On January 22, Hortonworks announced that it was one of the select companies that Forrester Research, Inc. Hortonworks is a rock when it comes to its promise to offer a 100% open source distribution. All of the technology built into HDP is an Apache open source project. Katie Kennedy.

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GeekWire

JUNE 11, 2024

LinkedIn Photos) Seattle startup Cyrus Biotechnology is spinning out a business that will expand access to the company’s software technology, with the potential of supporting innovation in drug development, agriculture, synthetic biology and manufacturing. Tech companies are really good at what they do.

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Big Data Companies Cloud Computing Companies CTO Ambari Apache Apache Ambari Apache Hadoop Apache License bdutil Big Data cloud GitHub Google Google Cloud Google Compute Engine Google Storage Hadoop Hortonworks MapR Open Source' MapR Enables the Real-Time, Data-Centric Enterprise (insidebigdata.com).

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Network World

JUNE 18, 2024

Today’s announcement is strongly positioned to substantiate the company as a supplier to enterprise of open source AI technology, without making specific assumptions of where the enterprise market really stands regarding on-prem AI. If the vendor tanks, you have the source code licenses in an amenably open-sourced forum.”

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

NASA will soon perform a significant upgrade to the systems employed in its spaceflight computers, adopting the RISC-V architecture developed and provided under open-source licenses. NASA selected SiFive to provide the CPU cores, a fitting choice as the company headquartered in San Mateo, California was founded 7 years ago to.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 31, 2024

Earthquakes in infrastructure automation The story begins in August 2023 when HashiCorp, the custodians of Terraform, the most widely-used IaC framework, announced that they were moving its license from Mozilla Public License (MPL) to Business Source License (BSL). The community struck back. There are some solid reasons.

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Network World

MAY 23, 2024

Why would a smart vendor buy a company whose product(s) are open source? The only possible answer is that the buyers of the product would rather get it in commercial form than in open form. Part of the reason is that it’s hard for enterprises to hire and retain specialists on all the open-source tools they might want.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The company has gobbled up at least four other startups this year, including one that is under investigation by the Justice Department. AI startups are raising a large chunk of total funding, though some industry insiders expect more M&A activity as companies run out of money and larger corporations look to buy talent and tech.

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CTOvision

APRIL 11, 2014

Visiting Carahsoft is like visiting 150 companies at once. 3) Cloudera (100% Apache-licensed open source CDH is the only distribution that offers batch processing, interactive SQL, interactive search, and role-based access controls. Let me share my personal list. Cloudera also offers enterprise grade management tools).

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 18, 2013

H2O is the open source math & machine learning platform for speed and scale. It was recognized as one of DC’s hottest startups by the Tech Cocktail Showcase and is ranked as a Top 50 analytics company by Signl. We list our methodologies at the end of the list. The Analyst One Top Technologies List.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 3, 2024

A VMware licensing cost increase of 150%. For many VMware customers, the licensing model and price changes were abrupt. Facing backlash from existing customers, Broadcom has attempted to explain the new product and licensing model with a hope that current customers can manage the transition. An increase of 300%.

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Dataconomy

MAY 10, 2023

Open source business intelligence software is a game-changer in the world of data analysis and decision-making. With open source BI software, businesses no longer need to rely on expensive proprietary software solutions that can be inflexible and difficult to integrate with existing systems.

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Venture Beast

APRIL 6, 2022

Grafana Labs is replacing Apache 2-licensed Cortex with Mimir, which is broader in scope and licensed under the more restrictive AGPLv3. Read More.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

“I claim there really are almost no companies in the world, just a handful, that are really investing in scaled public cloud infrastructure,” said Ballmer (see transcript ). But the company has never confirmed a number. How many servers do these companies have? Google is bigger than we are. You get Yahoo!

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Vox

AUGUST 5, 2024

Anthropic was supposed to be the good AI company. In fact, all of Anthropic’s founders once worked at OpenAI but quit in part because of differences over safety culture there , and moved to spin up their own company that would build AI more responsibly. The ethical one. The safe one. Now, though, the tensions are turbocharged.

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Dataconomy

OCTOBER 21, 2024

IBM is sticking to real open source. Unlike other tech giants that toy with the idea of “open,” IBM is making Granite available under the Apache 2.0 license, ensuring businesses can truly innovate without getting stuck in legal quagmires. The real differentiator? The Granite Guardian 3.0

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 17, 2023

This includes running a benchmarking spend analysis on all categories relative to industry peers, as well as leading technology companies. Review software licenses and subscriptions Many organizations are over-licensed and oversubscribed on software, pushing costs higher than they need to be.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

Proctorio, a piece of exam surveillance software designed to keep students from cheating while taking tests, relies on open-source software that has a history of racial bias issues, according to a report by Motherboard. Proctorio itself also confirms that it uses OpenCV on its licenses page , though it doesn't go into detail about how.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 21, 2012

The piece begins by discussing the news that a company is developing technology for the 3D printing of meat. Designs will be a great source of value, but the 3D printer movement has been heavily associated with ‘open source’ already. I have no doubt that open source models will continue to be prominent in 3D printing.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Should the OpenStack community focus on creating an open source alternative to Amazon and Google? Or should it make it easier to shift OpenStack clouds to Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine for companies that want to use both approaches in a hybrid infrastructure? Cloud Wars. Add Your Comments. Name (required).

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But there’s also the downside: the possibility gen AI will take companies down. The phrase “existential risk” is now everywhere—not in the sense the AI would destroy humanity, but that it would make business functions, or even entire companies, obsolete. At Black Hat, there were at least a hundred companies I saw,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2024

But there are no ways around the significant premium pricing being placed on generative AI workloads because the core infrastructure necessary to train and tune generative AI models are “largely supplied by one company: Nvidia ,” IDC notes. IBM, Oracle, Dell, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise also offer GPU-as-a-service.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 16, 2023

Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT set adoption records last winter, companies of all sizes have been trying to figure out how to put some of that sweet generative AI magic to use. The Azure deployment gives companies a private instance of the chatbot, meaning they don’t have to worry about corporate data leaking out into the AI’s training data set.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 2, 2011

There is a long and gradual trend to open systems, but progress is rarely linear and it hasn’t shifted as fast as we may have expected. Platforms and open source have been significant wins for open systems. Being too open can make things slower to progress, for example with quality assurance issues. *

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 7, 2024

WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg offered staff at his company, Automattic, $30,000 or six months’ salary to leave if they didn’t like the way he was handling a dispute with rival WordPress service provider WP Engine. On Thursday, Oct.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2022

But the company’s Soli radar hasn’t necessarily had commercial success, most prominently featuring in an ill-fated Pixel phone. A standard API, with semiconductor industry participation, will allow us to develop software independent of the hardware sourcing and give the software teams latitude to innovate across multiple radar platforms.

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

At a time when other leading AI companies like Google and OpenAI are closely guarding their secret sauce, Meta decided to give away , for free, the code that powers its innovative new AI large language model , Llama 2. But open-sourcing AI comes with major risks. Last week, Meta made a game-changing move in the world of AI.

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