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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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AI coding agents come with legal risk

CIO Business Intelligence

AI coding agents are poised to take over a large chunk of software development in coming years, but the change will come with intellectual property legal risk, some lawyers say. The same thing could happen with software code, even though companies don’t typically share their source code, he says. How was the AI trained?

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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

CIO Business Intelligence

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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When Your Open Source Turns to the Dark Side

Information Week

Open-source software is more than a license. Below are three recent case studies of OSS being relicensed or going rogue, each providing a practical guide for vetting and using OSS.

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SAP publishes open source manifesto

CIO Business Intelligence

It arrives alongside the announcement of SAP’s Open Reference Architecture project as part of the EU’s IPCEI-CIS initiative. It’s an open secret that even proprietary software contains open source components these days, and major vendors are, to varying extents, supporting or participating in open source projects.

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Stratoshark brings Wireshark-style analysis to cloud system calls

Network World

The open-source Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been a standard tool for networking professionals for decades. The libpcap library is an open-source tool for network traffic capture. Its part of the Wireshark code base, which means it is definitely open source and its always going to be that way, Combs said.

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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.