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

CIO Business Intelligence

Travel and expense management company Emburse saw multiple opportunities where it could benefit from gen AI. To solve the problem, the company turned to gen AI and decided to use both commercial and open source models. Both types of gen AI have their benefits, says Ken Ringdahl, the companys CTO.

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China banks on open source in AI cold war with US

CIO Business Intelligence

Further tariffs and the inclusion of large companies on the Department of Commerce blacklists limit competition while favoring solutions from the US. And thanks to the development of AI in the open-source model,hardware availability is no longer a problem, because models are voluntarily tested and improved by their users, e.g., from Europe.

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Open Source Design: What It Is And Why It Matters

Forrester IT

There’s a new buzz phrase in the air — “open source design.” It’s a “remix” (to borrow a term from Figma) of the open source software movement’s commitment to sharing and collaborative validation and improvement of software source code. What Are Examples Of Open Source Design? What is it?

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DeepSeek Just “Opened” The Path To AI ROI

Forrester IT

DeepSeeks open-source model, DeepThink (R1) by a little-known company in China sent shock waves across the technology world. Yes, it’s partially open-source. It’s amazing. Yes, it does excel at benchmarks comparable to other state-of-the-art models.

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Security moves from blocker to driver of open source adoption

Tech Republic Security

Commentary: Companies used to look to open source to lower costs. That's still true, but an even bigger driver is security, according to a new developer survey.

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Astera Labs debuts Scorpio fabric switch to accelerate PCIe for AI, cloud

Network World

Founded in 2017, Astera Labs is a semiconductor company that specializes in developing connectivity technologies for AI and cloud infrastructure. The company had its initial public offering on March 20 and has a series of product lines that help to support Ethernet, PCIe and CXL (Compute Express Link ) connectivity. “We Wireshark 4.4

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What is SONiC and how can enterprises try the open-source NOS?

Network World

Interest in the open-source network operating system SONiC is rising as major networking vendors and start-ups look to offer resources to help enterprises give SONiC a try. The Linux-based NOS was created by Microsoft for its Azure data centers and then open-sourced by Microsoft in 2017. What is SONiC? Who created SONiC?