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AI startups that aren’t OpenAI are plugging away this week, it’d seem — sticking to their product roadmaps even as coverage of the chaos at OpenAI dominates the airwaves. See: Stability…
How the OpenAI fiasco could bolster Meta and the ‘open AI’ movement
It has been a whirlwind four days for OpenAI, the generative AI poster child behind the smash hit ChatGPT. Seemingly out of nowhere, the OpenAI board ousted CEO and co-founder…
With Functional Source License, Sentry wants to grant developers freedom ‘without harmful free-riding’
Yet another software license is vying for the attentions of SaaS companies seeking to align themselves with the open source realm, without compromising their commercial endeavors. Sentry, an app performance…
Open source Notion alternative AppFlowy gets big-name backers and lands on the cloud
A new startup is targeting the lucrative workplace productivity space with an open source approach to project and knowledge management — and it has received backing from a who’s who…
Hugging Face has a two-person team developing ChatGPT-like AI models
AI startup Hugging Face offers a wide range of data science hosting and development tools, including a GitHub-like portal for AI code repositories, models and datasets, as well as web…
Meta taps Hugging Face for startup accelerator to spur adoption of open source AI models
Facebook parent Meta is teaming up with Hugging Face and European cloud infrastructure company Scaleway to launch a new AI-focused startup program at the Station F startup megacampus in Paris.…
Decentralized communication protocol Matrix shifts to less-permissive AGPL open source license
Element, the company and core developer behind the decentralized communication protocol known as Matrix, has announced a notable license change that will make the open source project just that little…
Charm offensive: Google’s Gradient backs this startup to bring more pizzazz to the command line
A young startup is setting out to transform the command line interface (CLI) into something a little more fitting for the modern age — something a little more glamorous. Charm…
A group behind Stable Diffusion wants to open source emotion-detecting AI
In 2019, Amazon upgraded its Alexa assistant with a feature that enabled it to detect when a customer was likely frustrated — and respond with proportionately more sympathy. If a…
A warning to software founders developing apps with lean teams and open source code
As users of open source, we have a responsibility to ensure it is properly vetted, managed, and maintained within the software it composes.
Microsoft launches Radius, an open source application platform for the cloud-native era
Microsoft today announced the launch of Radius, a new open source, language-agnostic application platform for building and running cloud-native applications. The project is being spun out of the Microsoft Azure…
5 investors on the pros and cons of open source AI business models
As a part of TC’s ongoing AI survey series, we spoke to a group of five investors about the pros and cons of open source AI business models.
Microsoft won’t say if its products were exploited by spyware zero-days
Microsoft has released patches to fix zero-day vulnerabilities in two popular open source libraries that affect several Microsoft products, including Skype, Teams and its Edge browser. But Microsoft won’t say…
Open source Datadog rival SigNoz lands on the cloud with $6.5M investment
Every company is now a software company, as the cliché goes, which means every company needs to understand what’s going on inside their apps and infrastructure. Even the slightest lag…
Sequoia backs PartyKit to power real-time multiplayer collaboration for any app
If a company wants to offer in-app messaging or voice calls, they don’t have to develop the infrastructure themselves when there’s something like Twilio at their disposal. Likewise, if they…
Database startup MotherDuck lands $52.5M to grow its DuckDB-based platform
A few weeks ago, it was reported that MotherDuck, the company commercializing the lightweight database platform DuckDB, was in talks to raise new capital from VC firm Felicis. Those talks…
The Unified Acceleration Foundation wants to create an open standard for accelerator programming
At the Open Source Summit Europe in Bilbao, Spain, the Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation. The group’s mission is to deliver “an open…
Access code: Evidence brings open source BI to technical data teams
From Tableau and Looker, to PowerBI and beyond, there is no shortage of business intelligence (BI) tools designed to help companies unlock insights from their vast swathes of data. But…
Flojoy is bringing no-code Python testing to industrial instrumentation
Whether you’re building a chip or an airplane, you need to measure the effectiveness of the product at each step of the manufacturing process, much like you do with developing…
Splinter group officially launches OpenTF fork of HashiCorp Terraform
Earlier this month HashiCorp announced it was changing the open source license it uses for Terraform and its other developer tools. The change triggered an uproar in the open source…
Meta, intent on making a splash in a generative AI space rife with competition, is on something of an open source tear. Following the release of AI models for generating…
Meta releases an AI model that can transcribe and translate close to 100 languages
In its quest to develop AI that can understand a range of different dialects, Meta has created an AI model, SeamlessM4T, that can translate and transcribe close to 100 languages…
ProjectDiscovery raises $25M to launch a cloud version of its threat-scanning platform
ProjectDiscovery, a platform that detects new, exploitable vulnerabilities in codebases, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by CRV with participation from Point72,…
Open source developers urged to ditch Zoom over user data controversy
Software Freedom Conservancy, a not-for-profit that serves support and legal services for open source projects, has called on developers to ditch Zoom over recent changes it made to its terms…
GitHub Copilot can now tell developers when its suggestions match code in a public repository
GitHub Copilot has changed how developers write their code. However, it can also create issues when it creates code similar to what’s already available in another public repository. In 2022,…
The day is fast approaching when generative AI won’t only write and create images in a convincingly human-like style, but compose music and sounds that pass for a professional’s work,…
Meta releases Llama 2, a more ‘helpful’ set of text-generating models
The generative AI landscape grows larger by the day. Today, Meta announced a new family of AI models, Llama 2, designed to drive apps such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Bing Chat…
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) today announced that Istio, the open source service mesh originally developed by Google and IBM and built on top of Lyft’s Envoy proxy, has…
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Why SUSE is forking Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Today, SUSE announced that it is creating a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and that it will develop and maintain an RHEL-compatible distribution. SUSE says that it will invest $10 million into this project over the coming years. One major open source company forking another major open source company’s project is equivalent…
Google’s Gradient backs YC alum Infisical to solve secret sprawl
Secret sprawl, where companies store authentication credentials and similar sensitive data across multiple locations, is a real and growing problem for any company wanting to avert a security breach. Companies…
