Free Software, Openwashing, and "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype
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A technology downturn and mass layoffs are having competing effects on FOSS
Over the past year, the technology sector has faced mass layoffs and redundancies worldwide. During 2022, there were more than 15 million layoffs in the US alone. According to data gathered on Layoffs.fyi on the technology sector, there have been more than 186,000 roles cut across 637 companies so far in 2023.
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Together raises $20M to decentralize and open-source AI model creation
As part of this mission, Together aims to establish open source as the default way to design and build AI. One of its aims is to create open models that outperform their closed-source brethren. To do this, Together is collaborating with various open-source groups, academic and corporate research labs, while assembling an impressive team of committed AI researchers, engineers and practitioners.
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Together’s $20M seed funding to build open-source AI and cloud platform
When Chris, Percy, Ce and I first got together last year, we all felt it was clear that foundation models represented a generational shift in technology, maybe the most significant since the invention of the transistor. At the time, we could see the trend toward centralization of these models within a small number of corporations due to the vast expense of high-end GPU clusters needed for training. Meanwhile, the open community that had led the innovations in AI over the prior decades had limited agency in shaping the coming world of AI. In founding Together, we were driven by the belief that open and decentralized alternatives to closed systems were going to be important — and possibly critical for business and society.
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OpenAI readies new open-source AI model: report
The company did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for a comment.
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Blog: Kubernetes 1.27: KMS V2 Moves to Beta [Ed: Blog of Kubernetes now a megaphone of Microsoft, which attacks Linux and Free software in all sorts of ways]
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U-M experts: We need to emphasize AI’s societal impacts over technological advancements
Most importantly, both say we need to be less in awe of the technological advancements and more focused on the societal risks and benefits.
This conversation is excerpted from the podcast, Business and Society with Michigan Ross.
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The AI Attack Surface Map v1.0
Once those AI-powered products and services start to appear we’re going to have an entirely new species of vulnerability to deal with. We hope with this resource to bring some clarity to that landscape.