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Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI (GenAI) and, within it, large language models (LLMs), have taken the industry by storm. Companies around the world are evaluating and implementing ...

Today, Databricks kicked off its annual Data and AI summit with a long-awaited move: the open sourcing of its three-year-old Unity Catalog platform that provides customers a unified solution for their ...

The best map data and the most advanced mapping features have been proprietary. The Overture Maps Foundation aims to change that. The trend of open data is taking hold around the world and it will ...

Today, at its annual Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced that it is open-sourcing its core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, making it available to the entire Apache ...

Databricks Inc. today launched DBRX, a general-purpose large language model that it says outperforms all existing open-source models — and some proprietary ones — on standard benchmarks. The company ...

There’s finally an “official” definition of open source AI. The Open Source Initiative (OSI), a long-running institution aiming to define and “steward” all things open source, today released version 1 ...

Big-data analytics firm Databricks Inc. has emerged as an unlikely player in the generative artificial intelligence space, open-sourcing a new AI model that it claims is “as magical as ChatGPT,” ...

The answer could determine who gets to shape the future of the technology. Suddenly, “open source” is the latest buzzword in AI circles. Meta has pledged to create open-source artificial general ...