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Elastic founder on why they returned to open source 4 years after going proprietary

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Licensing kerfuffles have long been a defining facet of the commercial open source space. Some of the biggest vendors have switched to a more restrictive “copyleft” license, as Grafana and Element have done, or gone full proprietary, as HashiCorp did last year with Terraform. But one $8 billion company has gone the other way. Elastic, […]

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AI2’s Molmo shows open source can meet, and beat, closed multimodal models

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The common wisdom is that companies like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with bottomless cash reserves and hundreds of top-tier researchers, are the only ones that can make state-of-the-art foundation model. But as one among them famously noted, they “have no moat” — and AI2 showed that today with the release of Molmo, a multimodal AI

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The org behind the data set used to train Stable Diffusion claims it has removed CSAM

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LAION, the German research org that created the data used to train Stable Diffusion, among other generative AI models, has released a new data set that it claims has been “thoroughly cleaned of known links to suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM).” The new data set, Re-LAION-5B, is actually a re-release of an old data

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

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

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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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Meta releases its biggest ‘open’ AI model yet

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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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