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By Scott McCarty The term “inflection point” is overused, but it certainly applies to the current state of artificial intelligence. Technology providers—and the companies that depend on them—can choose one of two roads to AI development: proprietary or open source. This dichotomy has existed for decades, with both sides achieving great levels of success. However, I would argue that the stakes for AI are higher than we’ve ever seen, and that the open source model is critical for the productive, economically feasible, and safe productization and consumption of AI. And, in terms of open source, t...
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By Matt Asay Everyone is doing AI, but no one knows why. That’s an overstatement, of course, but it feels like the market has hit peak hype without peak productivity. As Monte Carlo CEO Barr Moses highlights from a recent Wakefield survey, 91% of data leaders are building AI applications, but two-thirds of that same group said they don’t trust their data to large language models (LLMs). In other words, they’re building AI on sand. To be successful, we need to move beyond the confusing hype and help enterprises make sense of AI. In other words, we need more trust (open models) and fewer moving ...
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By Anirban Ghoshal Databricks has agreed to acquire Tabular, the storage platform vendor led by the creators of Apache Iceberg, in order to promote data interoperability in lakehouses. Tabular founders Ryan Blue and Daniel Weeks started developing Iceberg at Netflix in 2017 and donated it to the Apache Software Foundation in 2018, around the same time that Databricks was developing Delta Lake, an open-source table format for data that can be used for ACID transactions or OLTP processing. In contrast, Apache Iceberg is mostly used for OLAP queries as it has challenges around concurrency writes....
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By Paul Barker There appears to be many questions and few answers about MariaDB plc’s long-term strategy following an announcement that its shareholders have accepted an offer by California-based investment firm K1 Investment Management. News that the company that provides database and SaaS services around the open-source database MariaDB had been acquired came on Monday, when it was announced that a trio of companies—K1; Meridian Bidco LLC, a K1 affiliate; and K5 Capital Advisors—“now have irrevocable shareholder support in respect of 68.51% of MariaDB shares.” The company has had a litany of...
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By Peter Wang Since May 2023, the White House, in collaboration with leading AI companies, has been steering towards a comprehensive framework for responsible AI development. While the finalization of this framework is pending, the industry’s attempts at self-regulation are accelerating, primarily to address growing AI security concerns. The shift towards embedding trust and safety into AI tools and models is important progress. However, the real challenge lies in ensuring that these critical discussions don’t happen behind closed doors. For AI to evolve responsibly and inclusively, democratiz...
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By Serdar Yegulalp Microservices architectures solve some problems but introduce others. Dividing applications into independent services simplifies development, updates, and scaling. But it also gives you many more moving parts to connect and secure. Managing all the network services—load balancing, traffic management, authentication and authorization, and so on—can become stupendously complex. The term for this networked space between the services in your Kubernetes cluster is service mesh. A Google project, Istio, is all about providing a way to manage your cluster’s service mesh before it t...
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By David Tippett A few weeks ago, Redis changed its license from the Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved BSD 3-Clause license to the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2). This move echoed Elastic’s earlier license change for Elasticsearch, which switched from the Apache License 2.0 to the Elastic License (ELv2). Then, just as OpenSearch was forked from open-source Elasticsearch, Valkey has been forked from open-source Redis. I’ve spent the last two years at AWS working as a developer advocate for open-source OpenSearch and rebuilding the community trust shattered by Elastic’s 2021 license...
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By Matt Asay If you follow open source topics on X/Twitter, you can be forgiven for believing the biggest issue in open source today is companies relicensing their open source code under different licenses. Thierry Carrez, the vice chairperson of the OSI, for example, recently issued a dire warning: “single vendor is the new proprietary.” Sounds terrible, right? I mean, once you forget that the vast majority of software that you and I use every day on our phones, laptops, servers, etc., is proprietary. (Yes, with plenty of open source buried inside and effectively “relicensed.”) Here’s just a ...
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By Allan Jude Code commonly flows downstream, from an open-source project into an organization’s own products. Upstreaming is the process of reversing that flow—contributing code back to an open-source project. The value proposition of upstreaming includes harnessing the strength of an open-source community to examine code, find and fix problems, and add their own features that make the code more valuable to everyone using it. As someone who has been deeply involved with open-source projects for many years—I’ve committed code to the open source FreeBSD operating system project for over a decad...
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By Gyana Swain In a move that could redefine how generative AI can be used by enterprises sans the present ambiguity over its ability to scale and interoperable across business systems, the LF AI & Data Foundation has announced the launch of the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) in collaboration with several technology companies. The objective is to spearhead the development of open, robust, multi-provider, and composable GenAI systems that are flexible, scalable, and enterprise-grade. Technology bigwigs supporting the initiative include Intel, VMWare, Red Hat, SAS, Cloudera, MariaDB Foun...
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