Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press revolutionized life in the 15th century, making it possible for ideas to travel around the world at previously unimaginable speeds and creating huge gains for mankind. Generative AI’s ability to digest nearly the entire breadth of human knowledge by training large-language-model algorithms with hundreds of billions of parameters allows it to write, draw, reason and solve …
Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk is planning to make the microblogging site’s algorithm open source. Some venture investors called for Red Hat to change its business model from the current open source one. Five years later, in 2018, IBM acquired Red Hat for $34 billion to offer hybrid multi-cloud platform service based on open source technologies like Linux and Kubernetes. …
The open source movement, which has focused on democratising technology access, has over a two-decade history in India. From a NASSCOM perspective, we’ve always believed that while it’s important for us to promote OS, it’s also important to give users a choice: do they want OS or some other proprietary software? One why OS was held back in the early …
