Tag: open source

Ditching Meta? Open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp fundraise on Kickstarter

The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to...

Dub.co is an open-source URL shortener and link attribution engine packed into one

In the last few weeks, PayPal-owned Honey, which claims to find you the best coupon codes for a deal, has been at the...

Open source licenses: Everything you need to know

Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating...

Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450

So-called reasoning AI models are becoming easier — and cheaper — to develop. On Friday, NovaSky, a team of researchers based out of...

DeepSeek’s new AI model appears to be one of the best ‘open’ challengers yet

A Chinese lab has created what appears to be one of the most powerful “open” AI models to date. The model, DeepSeek V3,...

Open source companies that go proprietary: A timeline

Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software...