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Latin America Launches Latam-GPT to Improve AI Cultural Relevance
Latin America is advancing in the development of artificial intelligence with the creation of Latam-GPT, a language model designed to better represent the history, culture, and linguistic diversity of the region.
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FerretDB, an Open-Source Alternative to MongoDB, Releases Version 2.0
FerretDB has announced the first release candidate of version 2.0. Now powered by the recently released DocumentDB, FerretDB serves as an open-source alternative to MongoDB, bringing significant performance improvements, enhanced feature compatibility, vector search capabilities, and replication support.
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OpenEuroLLM: Europe’s New Initiative for Open-Source AI Development
A consortium of 20 European research institutions, companies, and EuroHPC centers has launched OpenEuroLLM, an initiative to develop open-source, multilingual large language models (LLMs). Coordinated by Jan Hajič and co-led by Peter Sarlin, the project aims to provide transparent and compliant AI models for commercial and public sector applications.
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Hugging Face Expands Serverless Inference Options with New Provider Integrations
Hugging Face has launched the integration of four serverless inference providers Fal, Replicate, SambaNova, and Together AI, directly into its model pages. These providers are also integrated into Hugging Face's client SDKs for JavaScript and Python, allowing users to run inference on various models with minimal setup.
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Block Launches Open-Source AI Framework Codename Goose
Block’s Open Source Program Office has launched Codename Goose, an open-source, non-commercial AI agent framework designed to automate tasks and integrate seamlessly with existing tools. Goose provides users with a flexible, on-machine AI assistant that can be customized through extensions, enabling developers and other professionals to enhance their productivity.
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Fluent Assertions Library v8 Abandons Apache Licensing
Fluent Assertions, a well-known .NET library that allows expressive asserts in unit tests, has launched version 8 with a proprietary license in partnership with Xceed, replacing the existing Apache 2.0 licence. The new license allows free non-commercial use, but any commercial use will require a paid license. The move has been negatively received by the developer community.
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Databases in 2024: Growth, Change and Controversy
Andrew Pavlo’s annual retrospective on the database world has recently been released, covering trends and innovations from the past year. The opinionated report, "Databases in 2024: A Year in Review," highlights that while we may indeed be in the "golden era of databases," last year brought significant license changes, the rapid growth of DuckDB, and some surprising new releases.
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Apache Hudi 1.0 Now Generally Available
The Apache Software Foundation has recently announced the general availability of Apache Hudi 1.0, the transactional data lake platform with support for near real-time analytics. Initially introduced in 2017, Apache Hudi provides an open table format optimized for efficient writes in incremental data pipelines and fast query performance.
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How to Go from Copy and Paste Deployments to Full GitOps
InnerSource helped reduce the amount of development work involved when introducing GitOps by sharing company-specific logic, Jemma Hussein Allen said at QCon London. She showed how they went from copy and paste deployments to full GitOps. She mentioned that a psychologically safe environment is really important for open and honest discussions that can help resolve pain points and drive innovation.
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Google Launches Android XR, Its New AI-Powered Extended Reality Platform
Android XR is Google's new operating system aimed at powering devices like headsets and glasses and making possible new experiences, a.k.a. apps, running on them. Android XR will integrate Gemini, Google's AI assistant, to enable understanding user intent, defining a plan, guiding through tasks, and more.
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Redis Creator 'antirez' Returns: Can He Shift Momentum away from Valkey?
After over four years away, Redis creator Salvatore Sanfilippo recently announced his return to Redis. In what has been a challenging year for the company behind the source-available in-memory NoSQL database, the announcement has sparked enthusiasm and stirred much discussion within the Redis community.
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Ai2 Launches OLMo 2, a Fully Open-Source Foundation Model
The Allen Institute for AI research team has introduced OLMo 2, a new family of open-source language models available in 7 billion (7B) and 13 billion (13B) parameter configurations. Trained on up to 5 trillion tokens, these models redefine training stability, adopting staged training processes, and incorporating diverse datasets.
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Mistral AI Releases Pixtral Large: a Multimodal Model for Advanced Image and Text Analysis
Mistral AI released Pixtral Large, a 124-billion-parameter multimodal model designed for advanced image and text processing with a 1-billion-parameter vision encoder. Built on Mistral Large 2, it achieves leading performance on benchmarks like MathVista and DocVQA, excelling in tasks that require reasoning across text and visual data.
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Timescale Bolsters AI-Ready PostgreSQL with pgai Vectorizer
Timescale recently expanded its PostgreSQL AI offerings with pgai Vectorizer. This update enables developers to create, store, and manage vector embeddings alongside relational data without the need for external tools or additional infrastructure.
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Meta Releases NotebookLlama: Open-Source PDF to Podcast Toolkit
Meta has released NotebookLlama, an open-source toolkit designed to convert PDF documents into podcasts, providing developers with a structured, accessible PDF-to-audio workflow. As an open-source alternative to Google’s NotebookLM, NotebookLlama guides users through a four-step process that converts PDF text into audio content.