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A Month on Chimera Linux
Chimera Linux is a unique from-scratch Linux distribution created in 2021 by Czech Republic Software Engineer q66 that combines the Linux kernel, musl libc, FreeBSD userland, apk package manager, and dinit binary init system. The whole system is built with the LLVM toolchain. The homepage says: “… It aims to be clean and usable while…
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New Turing Test Would See If AI Can Make $1 Million
Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI and a venture partner at Greylock, a venture capital firm. Before that, he co-founded DeepMind, one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies. AI systems are increasingly everywhere and are becoming more powerful almost by the day. But how can we know if a machine…
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3 Open Source NLP Tools For Data Extraction
Unstructured text and data are like gold for business applications and the company bottom line, but where to start? Here are three tools worth a look. Developers and data scientists use generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to query volumes of documents and unstructured data. Open source LLMs, including Dolly 2.0, EleutherAI Pythia, Meta…
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Linux Hits All-Time High of 3% on desktop PCs
While Linux has several advantages over Apple’s Mac and Microsoft’s Windows, it has never really gained any traction in PCs. After 30 years on the market, the open-source operating system has achieved 3% of desktop PC OS market share, reports Linuxiac citing StatCounter, marking an all-time high. Currently, Windows commands 68.15% of the PC market…
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Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” is released
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source cross-platform email client, personal information manager, news client, RSS and chat client that is operated by the Mozilla Foundation’s subsidiary, MZLA Technologies Corporation. Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird Community. The project strategy…
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Risk Factors Associated With Open-Source LLMs
How Risky Is Your Open-Source LLM (large language model) Project? A new research explains the risk factors associated with open-source LLMs. Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, such as GPT engines, have been creating big waves in the AI domain recently, and there is a big hype in the market, both among retail individuals…
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