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Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay

Cockroach Labs, the business and core developer behind the eponymous distributed SQL database known as CockroachDB, is changing its licensing once again — five years after it moved on from an open source model. The company revealed today that its consolidating its self-hosted product under a single enterprise license, a move designed to encourage larger […]

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Open source tools to boost your productivity

Apps / Sasandara Dilmina

For every yin, there’s a yang; for every action, a reaction; and for every piece of proprietary software, there’s an open source alternative. Or something like that. The issue of “openness” in technology has rarely been so front and center in the public consciousness as it has these past couple of years. Twitter’s steady demise has

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Database startup Neon nabs a Microsoft investment

Fundraising / Sasandara Dilmina

In a sign that big tech companies are ready and willing to shell out cash for database tech, Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, on Wednesday announced that Microsoft’s venture arm M12 led a $25 million strategic investment in its business. The capital will go toward R&D, Neon co-founder

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Google releases new ‘open’ AI models with a focus on safety

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Google has released a trio of new, “open” generative AI models that it’s calling “safer,” “smaller” and “more transparent” than most — a bold claim, to be sure. They’re additions to Google’s Gemma 2 family of generative models, which debuted back in May. The new models, Gemma 2 2B, ShieldGemma and Gemma Scope, are designed

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Mistral’s Large 2 is its answer to Meta and OpenAI’s latest models

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

For frontier AI models, when it rains, it pours. Mistral released a fresh new flagship model on Wednesday, Large 2, which it claims to be on par with the latest cutting edge models from OpenAI and Meta in terms of code generation, mathematics, and reasoning. The release of Mistral Large 2 falls just one day

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Meta releases its biggest ‘open’ AI model yet

Enterprise / Sasandara Dilmina

Meta’s latest open-source AI model is its biggest yet. Today, Meta said it is releasing Llama 3.1 405B, a model containing 405 billion parameters. Parameters roughly correspond to a model’s problem-solving skills, and models with more parameters generally perform better than those with fewer parameters. At 405 billion parameters, Llama 3.1 405B isn’t the absolute

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TigerBeetle is building database software optimized for financial transactions

Fintech / Sasandara Dilmina

After doing some consulting for Microsoft to develop protections against zero-day exploits, software engineer Joran Dirk Greef worked with Coil, a web monetization startup in San Francisco, to help build its payments infrastructure. At the time, Coil was using a traditional database to store and process transactions. But Greef had the insight that a specialized

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What does ‘open source AI’ mean, anyway?

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the burgeoning artificial intelligence space, with controversy in hot pursuit. The New York Times recently published a gushing appraisal of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, noting how his “open source AI” embrace had made

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Stability AI releases a sound generator

AI / Sasandara Dilmina

Stability AI, the startup behind the AI-powered art generator Stable Diffusion, has released an open AI model for generating sounds and songs that it claims was trained exclusively on royalty-free recordings. Called Stable Audio Open, the generative model takes a text description (e.g. “Rock beat played in a treated studio, session drumming on an acoustic

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EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M

Enterprise / Sasandara Dilmina

WSO2, a company that provides API management and identity and access management (IAM) services for enterprises, has been acquired by Swedish investment giant EQT. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch has learned via sources that the deal values WSO2 at “more than” $600 million, with EQT attaining a “significant majority” stake for

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