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The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the artificial intelligence space, in part ...

Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI (GenAI) and, within it, large language models (LLMs), have taken the industry by storm. Companies around the world are evaluating and implementing ...

The best map data and the most advanced mapping features have been proprietary. The Overture Maps Foundation aims to change that. The trend of open data is taking hold around the world and it will ...

There’s finally an “official” definition of open source AI. The Open Source Initiative (OSI), a long-running institution aiming to define and “steward” all things open source, today released version 1 ...

InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning. When the leaves fall, the sky turns gray, ...

Databricks Inc. today launched DBRX, a general-purpose large language model that it says outperforms all existing open-source models — and some proprietary ones — on standard benchmarks. The company ...

Open source is where using free products doesn't mean you're the product!

Some say, “data is the new oil,” with an air of seriousness. And while the phrase may capture a certain truth about the modern digital economy, it fails to model the way that bits can be copied again ...

Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space, open-sourcing a new AI model that it claims is “as magical as ChatGPT,” ...