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

CIO Business Intelligence

It could be used to improve the experience for individual users, for example, with smarter analysis of receipts, or help corporate clients by spotting instances of fraud. Take for example the simple job of reading a receipt and accurately classifying the expenses. So we augment with open source, he says.

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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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What Is Open Source Software? Meaning, Working, Importance, and Examples

IT Toolbox

Open source software are programs whose source code is freely available for anyone to view, modify, and distribute. Read on to learn more about open source software, how it works, and a few examples of such software. The post What Is Open Source Software?

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Log4j hearing: 'Open source is not the problem'

Network World

The high-tech community is still trying to figure out the long-term impact of the serious vulnerability found late last year in the open-source Apache Log4j software, and so is the US Senate. Software supply-chain security issues have bedeviled the cyber-policy community for years.” To read this article in full, please click here

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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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Why Open Source Is Really Disrupting Enterprise Software

Forrester IT

I had an epiphany today about a major reason open source is disrupting enterprise software. In the open source model, the code is, well.open source. Cool, talented open source developers don't generally want to work for big, stoggie software vendors. It is not simply just a cost play.

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7 types of tech debt that could cripple your business

CIO Business Intelligence

Open source dependency debt that weighs down DevOps As a software developer, writing code feels easier than reviewing someone elses and understanding how to use it. Many teams neglect dependency hygiene, letting outdated, redundant, or unsupported open-source components pile up, says Mitchell Johnson, CPDO of Sonatype.