Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter recapping noteworthy happenings in tech over the past few days. This week, TechCrunch viewed leaked documents out of SpaceX showing some questionable practices related to employee stock options. X CEO Elon Musk announced that he would open source Grok, X’s AI-powered chatbot meant to … Read more
xAI, an AI startup that makes up one of Elon Musk’s many projects, will open-source Grok. These are all real words now. It’s not entirely surprising that Musk would open-source Grok — a chatbot similar to ChatGPT that is modeled after the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, according to xAI. This move comes just a … Read more
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI will open-source Grok, its chatbot rivaling ChatGPT, this week, the entrepreneur said, days after suing OpenAI and complaining that the Microsoft-backed startup had deviated from its open-source roots. xAI released Grok last year, arming it with features including access to “real-time” information and views that countered “politically correct” approach. The service … Read more
Meet Gemma, Google’s open-source AI model. On Wednesday, Google announced a new family of models to “assist developers and researchers in building AI responsibly.” Gemma is built from the same research and technology used to create Gemini, its closed-source models that powers the Gemini chatbot (formerly Bard) and AI-related tools for Workspace (formerly Duet AI). … Read more
Apple is dabbling in AI image-editing with an open-source multimodal AI model. Earlier this week, researchers from Apple and the University of California, Santa Barbara released MLLM-Guided Image Editing, or “MGIE;” a multimodal AI model that can edit images like Photoshop, based on simple text commands. On the AI development front, Apple has been characteristically … Read more
Just_Super/Getty Images As Stella Biderman, the Executive Director of EluetherAI eloquently notes in the foreword of the Linux Foundation’s 2023 Open Source Generative AI Report, the transformative journey of AI began with the advent of GPT-3. This report, crafted by Adrienn Lawson, Marco Gerosa, and Stephen Hendrick, reveals the latest advancements in this rapidly evolving field … Read more
Giskard is a French startup working on an open-source testing framework for large language models. It can alert developers of risks of biases, security holes and a model’s ability to generate harmful or toxic content. While there’s a lot of hype around AI models, ML testing systems will also quickly become a hot topic as … Read more
matejmo/Getty Images BastionZero’s OpenPubkey, which is a new cryptographic protocol that’s designed to fortify the open-source software ecosystem, is now a Linux Foundation open-source project. Docker is also integrating OpenPubkey, so that you can use it for container signing. This innovative cryptographic technology promises enhanced security through zero-trust passwordless authentication. OpenPubkey provides this authentication by … Read more
Meet Kestra, a startup that has been working on an open-source project focused on data orchestration across several services, databases, files, repositories and warehouses. The open source project has attracted thousands of stars on GitHub, proving that there’s some interest and potential behind a new data orchestration platform. But first, why would you need a … Read more
In February, Sogou founder Wang Xiaochuan stated on Weibo that “China wants its personal OpenAI.” The Chinese language entrepreneur is now inching nearer to his dream as his nascent startup Baichuan Intelligence rolled out its next-generation massive language mannequin Baichuan-13B at present. Baichuan is being touted as one in all China’s most promising LLM builders, … Read more