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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source.

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OpenTofu: Liberating IaC and DevOps beyond Terraform

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Navigate AI market uncertainty by bringing AI to your data

CIO Business Intelligence

And while LLM providers are hoping you choose their platforms and applications, it’s worth asking yourself whether this is the wisest course of action as you seek to keep costs down while preserving security and governance for your data and platforms. Of course, GenAI can also help with that. Can you blame them?

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Will IBM’s acquisition mean the end of Terraform’s maligned RUM billing model?

Dataconomy

One of the criticisms of IBM’s purchase of HashiCorp is the latter’s decision to abandon open-source licensing. Last summer, HashiCorp had switched from the Mozilla Public License (MPL) to the Business Source License (BSL) for most of its products. IBM is well-known for its affinity to open source.

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What is NLP? Natural language processing explained

CIO Business Intelligence

According to Technology Evaluation Centers, the most popular software includes: Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) , an open-source framework for building Python programs to work with human language data. SpaCy , an open-source library for advanced natural language processing explicitly designed for production use rather than research.

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4 moves CIOs should make to achieve a more efficient IT organization

CIO Business Intelligence

Of course, automating procedural, repeatable tasks via robotic process automation (RPA) not only cuts cost but frees up talent for higher-value, more strategic activities, enabling the business to do more with fewer people and address talent supply issues. There are several ways to tackle this problem.

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Inside the fight over California’s new AI bill

Vox

The bill doesn’t require a license. Of course that’s not true. Of course, if a model is genuinely extremely dangerous, no one wants it released. In terms of open source, including and not limited to Llama, I’ve taken the critiques from the open source community really, really seriously.