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For Meta Platforms, An Open AI Policy Is The Best Policy

July 30, 2024 Jeffrey Burt 0

For Mark Zuckerberg, the decision by Meta Platforms – and way back when it was still known as Facebook – to open much of its technology – including server and storage designs, datacenter designs, and most recently its Llama AI large language models – came about because the company often found itself trailing competitors when it came to deploying advanced technologies. …

Code

China’s Hyperscalers Strive to Keep Pace in Open Source

March 8, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 1

We have a good sense of what projects U.S. companies open source but when it comes to Chinese webscale companies, most notably the big three—Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent—that ecosystem is less public and not often discussed. …

Compute

Can Open Source Hardware Crack Semiconductor Industry Economics?

May 16, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 3

The running joke is that when a headline begs a question, the answer is, quite simply, “No.” …

Cloud

CoreOS Hyperscales Linux By Making It Invisible

February 25, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Operating systems matter and they always will matter on the systems that run the applications of the world. …

AI

Flink Sparks Next Wave of Distributed Data Processing

February 22, 2015 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

If you haven’t heard of Flink until now, get ready for the deluge. …

AI

Pivotal Opens Up More Of Its Platform

February 25, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Just a few years ago, using a new kind of tool such as the Hadoop data muncher was sufficient to gain competitive advantage in many industries. …

Connect

Open Switches Squeeze Networking Incumbents

February 26, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

The so-called industry standard server, by which most people mean a machine based on an X86 processor and generally one made by Intel, has utterly transformed the datacenter. …

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