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Google’s Gemma 3 is an open source, single-GPU AI with a 128K context window

Ars Technica

Google says the Gemma 3 open source model is the best in the world for running on a single GPU or AI accelerator. Google claims Gemma 3 will be able to tackle more challenging tasks compared to the older open source Google models. Most new AI models go bigmore parameters, more tokens, more everything.

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CURE International to Develop a Free Open-Source Electronic Medical Record System

NonProfit PRO

CURE International is building an open-source electronic medical record system that will be available to other hospitals in developing countries. The system will allow hospitals to safely and reliably digitize, store, and easily access patient data in one centralized system.

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Winamp music player will soon become an open-source project

TechSpot

Llama Group is opening Winamp's source code to programmers worldwide. According to the company, the legendary audio player for Windows PCs will start living its second life as a proper open-source project on September 24, 2024. Llama Group is looking for coders interested in joining the software's development, but it.

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The eternal struggle between open source and proprietary software

TechCrunch

Whenever chaos engulfs a proprietary technology relied on by millions, the default knee-jerk reaction from many seems to be: “Hey, let’s see what the open source world has to offer.”

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Microsoft angers the.NET open source community with a controversial decision

The Verge

Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community. The Linux Foundation even praised Microsoft for working with the open source community after the company joined the foundation nearly five years ago.

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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

The Verge

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “ faker.js ” and “ colors.js ” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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New open-source math model Light-R1-32B surpasses equivalent DeepSeek performance with only $1000 in training costs

VentureBeat

A team of researchers has introduced Light-R1-32B, a new open-source AI model optimized for solving advanced math problems, making it available on Hugging Face under a permissive Apache 2.0 license free for enterprises and researchers to take, deploy, fine-tune or modify as they wish, even for