Open Source

AI Lessons Learned from DeepSeek’s Meteoric Rise

The AI world is still buzzing from last week’s debut of DeepSeek’s reasoning model, which demonstrates category-leading performance at a bargain-basement price. While the details of the Chinese AI ...Full Article

AI Needs Its Linux: Oumi Comes Out of Stealth with an Open Source Vision

A new company called Oumi has just been launched, emerging from stealth today with $10 million in seed funding. The company’s founders describe Oumi as the world’s first unconditionally open source ...Full Article

‘Every Tech Company Will Be an AI Company’: Hugging Face’s $235M Vote of Confidence

Hugging Face announced it has raised $235 million in a Series D funding round led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from a host of tech giants including IBM, Google, ...Full Article

Zilliz Offers LLM-focused Features, New Pricing Model

Zilliz is looking to become the preferred vector database choice for LLM-powered applications through strategic enhancements and a cost-effective new pricing model that now includes a free tier. The ...Full Article

Google Announces Open Source ML Compiler Project, OpenXLA

At its Next ‘22 event, Google Cloud announced the launch of an open source machine learning compiler ecosystem, OpenXLA. OpenXLA is a community-led and open source ecosystem of ML ...Full Article

IBM Research Open-Sources Deep Search Tools

IBM Research’s Deep Search product uses natural language processing (NLP) to “ingest and analyze massive amounts of data—structured and unstructured.” Over the years, Deep Search has seen a wide ...Full Article

Major Tech, Financial Companies Pony Up $10M to Help Drive U.S. Cybersecurity Efforts

Working together to bolster the security of open source software for enterprises in the U.S. and around the world, a group of technology and financial companies has amassed $10 ...Full Article

Enterprise Open Source Job Applicant Shortage Persists in 2021, Linux Foundation Survey Finds

Though IT hiring is showing signs of rebounding in the wake of the still-lingering COVID-19 pandemic, finding qualified candidates with high-demand open source skills continues to be a huge ...Full Article

As CentOS Linux Loses Support Dec. 31, CloudLinux TuxCare Moves In to Help CentOS Users

With official support for a stable CentOS 8 Linux operating system set to end Dec. 31 from Red Hat, dedicated, long-time enterprise users of the OS have been scrambling ...Full Article

Enterprises Needing Accelerated Data Analytics and AI Workloads Get Help from Nvidia and Cloudera

In April, Nvidia and Cloudera unveiled a new partnership effort to bring together Nvidia GPUs, Apache Spark and the Cloudera Data Platform to help customers vastly accelerate their data ...Full Article