As generative AI content starts to fill our social apps, a project to bring back Vine’s six-second looping videos is launching with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s backing. On…
Read more Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive | TechCrunchEver since DeepSeek burst onto the scene in January, momentum has grown around open source Chinese artificial intelligence models. Some researchers are pushing for an even more open…
Read more This Startup Wants to Spark a US DeepSeek MomentJust like you probably don’t grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don’t write every line of code in a new project…
Read more Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way PossibleIn the era of vibe coding, when even professionals are pawning off their programming work on AI tools, Microsoft is throwing it all the way back to the…
Read more Microsoft Goes Back to BASIC, Open-Sources Bill Gates’ CodeLatam-GPT is new large language model being developed in and for Latin America. The project, led by the nonprofit Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENIA), aims to…
Read more Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin AmericaThe most capable open source AI model with visual abilities yet could see more developers, researchers, and startups develop AI agents that can carry out useful chores on…
Read more The Most Capable Open Source AI Model Yet Could Supercharge AI AgentsWhen Meta released its large language model Llama 3 for free this April, it took outside developers just a couple days to create a version without the safety…
Read more A New Trick Could Block the Misuse of Open Source AIMany of yesterday’s talks were littered with the acronyms you’d expect from this assemblage of high-minded panelists: YC, FTC, AI, LLMs. But threaded throughout the conversations—foundational to them,…
Read more Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—BuzzingIllia Polosukhin doesn’t want big companies to determine the future of artificial intelligence. His alternative vision for “user-owned AI” is already starting to take shape. Steven Levy Source…
Read more He Helped Invent Generative AI. Now He Wants to Save ItOwners of Spotify’s soon-to-be-bricked Car Thing device are begging the company to open source the gadgets to save some the landfill. Spotify hasn’t responded to pleas to salvage…
Read more Spotify Will Brick Every ‘Car Thing’ It Ever SoldUltimately, Scott argues that those three years of code changes and polite emails were likely not spent sabotaging multiple software projects, but rather building up a history of…
Read more The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor MastermindOn Friday, a lone Microsoft developer rocked the world when he revealed a backdoor had been intentionally planted in XZ Utils, an open source data compression utility available…
Read more The XZ Backdoor: Everything You Need to KnowThis past Monday, about a dozen engineers and executives at data science and AI company Databricks gathered in conference rooms connected via Zoom to learn if they had…
Read more Inside the Creation of the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI ModelWhether through the frowning high-definition face of a chimpanzee or a psychedelic, pink-and-red-hued doppelganger of himself, Reuven Cohen uses AI-generated images to catch people’s attention. “I’ve always been…
Read more The Dark Side of Open Source AI Image GeneratorsIn a role reversal, Xalts, a Singapore fintech startup founded 18 months ago, has acquired Contour Network, a digital trade platform set up by eight major banks including…
Read more Singapore-based fintech Xalts acquires digital trade platform Contour Network | TechCrunchQdrant, the company behind the eponymous open source vector database, has raised $28 million in a Series A round of funding led by Spark Capital. Founded in 2021,…
Read more Open source vector database startup Qdrant raises $28M | TechCrunchZEBEDEE, a bitcoin gaming company, has announced No Big Deal (NDB), a non-profit dedicated to furthering open source development for Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, per a release…
Read more Bitcoin Gaming Company ZEBEDEE Launches Open-Source Bitcoin Development Non-ProfitPress Release – Nov 28, 2021 OLYMPIA, Wash., November 28, 2021 (Newswire.com) – The Tux Paint development team is proud to announce version 0.9.27 of Tux Paint, which…
Read more Tux Paint 0.9.27 Released for Windows, macOS, Android, and LinuxEquinox Open Library Initiative celebrates 15 years as a small business delivering ‘Extraordinary Service. Exceptional Value’ to libraries worldwide Press Release – updated: Apr 20, 2021 DULUTH, Ga.,…
Read more Equinox Launches New Website Featuring Open Source Library Products, Services, and Education
