Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

On January 20, 2025, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled R1, an open-source large language model (LLM) that is redefining industry expectations. Designed to offer performance on par with proprietary ...

LiteLLM allows developers to integrate a diverse range of LLM models as if they were calling OpenAI’s API, with support for fallbacks, budgets, rate limits, and real-time monitoring of API calls. The ...

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If a piece of software is available under a license rubber stamped as “open source” ...

In January, assumptions around AI were shaken up by DeepSeek, a small Chinese company that nobody had heard of. This week it was Switzerland’s turn to stir things up. Apertus (Latin for ‘open’) is a ...

Qwen 2.5 Coder/Max is currently the top open-source model for coding, with the highest HumanEval (~70–72%), LiveCodeBench (70.7), and Elo (2056) scores among open models. DeepSeek V3/Coder V2 remains ...

AMD planted another flag in the AI frontier by announcing a series of large language models (LLMs) known as AMD OLMo. As with other LLMs like OpenAI’s GPT 4o, AMD’s in-house-trained LLM has reasoning ...

I’ve been writing about the democratic future of large language models (LLMs). Will this tech turn out to be an inherently centralized, authoritarian technology like nuclear power, or a more ...