These scores place it at or near the level of top proprietary systems like GPT-5 (thinking) and Claude Sonnet 4.5, making ...
DevSecOps company Jozu is taking a prominent role in two open source projects, KitOps and ModelPack. KitOps is an open source ...
The developers of OpenFold3 have released an early version of the tool, which they hope will one day perform on par with DeepMind’s protein-structure model.
Synaptics joins hands with Google to help create open ecosystems and thus confront fragmentation in edge AI designs.
Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow ...
European governments are turning towards open standards alternatives to end-to end encrypted messaging and collaboration ...
Schleswig-Holstein has moved from Microsoft Exchange and Outlook to Open-Xchange and Thunderbird for e-mail. Other EU entities have opted for open-source alternatives. This switch isn't just a ...
If Windows is your OS of choice, consider these open-source apps. There are tons of open-source apps for just about any task. These are all free to install and use on Windows. I've been using ...
Qualcomm has announced the acquisition of Italian open-source hardware and software company Arduino, assuring that Arduino's brand mission and community spirit will remain intact. Arduino enables ...
Vibe coding lets you turn ideas into real projects without writing code. Top free tools include LlamaCoder for prompt-based code generation, Fragments for multi-model coding with personas, Bolt for ...
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I published a version of this article on Medium eight years ago. This version is updated with new references and arguments. Over the last few years, I’ve been a part of lots of discussions — across ...