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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO Business Intelligence

Even if you don’t have the training data or programming chops, you can take your favorite open source model, tweak it, and release it under a new name. According to Stanford’s AI Index Report, released in April, 149 foundation models were released in 2023, two-thirds of them open source. Here are the top ones.

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Dispute between Elastic and AWS highlights ongoing battle over open source business model

GeekWire

Open source software (OSS) started as a reaction to companies like Microsoft and Oracle making “unfair” profits on software, so developers created Linux and MySQL and made them available to anyone for free. AWS is profiting from open source, and Elastic is very mad. Now OSS has gone full circle.

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Open-sourced Technology Levels the Playing Field Between Tech Giants and Startups

CTOvision

The contest between proprietary technology and open source has been ongoing for a decade.Today, some of the most premium technology is open-sourced and free. Even Google's highly prized Borg software is becoming open-sourced. Government push for open source software.

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Open RAN and HashiCorp are making us rethink openness

Network World

Why would a smart vendor buy a company whose product(s) are open source? The only possible answer is that the buyers of the product would rather get it in commercial form than in open form. Part of the reason is that it’s hard for enterprises to hire and retain specialists on all the open-source tools they might want.

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Malware and Antivirus Systems for Linux

Galido

Each computer system may have a malware or viruses, including Linux. Fortunately, there are only a few viruses which can affect Linux, but users are usually not installing antivirus software but later on they pray that their OS is not endangered. Thankfully, a low-footprint software exists for Linux. Linux Viruses.

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Google and Hortonworks Team Up: HDP Now Part of Google Cloud

CTOvision

Microsoft Shows More Love For Linux, HDInsight Now Supports Ubuntu On Azure (microsoft-news.com). An Open Microsoft: Azure HDInsight Available for Linux (windowsitpro.com). Azure Machine Learning Aims to Convert Data to Information (technewsworld.com). Qubole adds Apache Spark to its Big Data-as-a-Service platform (sdtimes.com).

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Red Hat seeks to be the platform for enterprise AI

Network World

It delivered a version of Linux – Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI – optimized for AI , InstructLab for fine tuning models, and Podman AI Lab for building and testing AI-powered applications. IBM’s newly open-sourced Granite models? That’s a more enterprise-friendly license than many other open source generative AI models.