The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the artificial intelligence space, in part ...

For Alibaba and several Chinese AI startups, open-source AI presents an opportunity for faster commercialization and global recognition. This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology ...

Researchers have long disagreed over what constitutes open-source AI. An influential group has offered up an answer. Open-source AI is everywhere right now. The problem is, no one agrees on what it ...

The health of the ecosystem is what finally convinced me that Jitsi Meet was a "good enough" Zoom alternative. The Jitsi Meet ...

With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...

Something important happened at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last month, and it did not get nearly the attention it deserved.

I If you used IFTTT or Zapier, you're familiar with the trigger-and-action structure. Huginn's implementation is different: ...

Making a digital camera is a project that appears easy enough, but it’s one whose complexity increases depending on the level to which a designer is prepared to go. At the simplest a Raspberry Pi and ...

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...

The original circuit simulation software, called the Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis, or SPICE as it is more commonly known, was originally developed at the University of ...

The library uses ONNX Runtime for automatic hardware acceleration, and can run Apple silicon chips, Nvidia GPUs and CPU ...