Major models including Google’s Gemma, Meta’s Llama, and even older OpenAI releases like GPT2 have been released under this open weights structure. Those models also often release open source code covering the inference-time instructions run when responding to a query. It’s currently unclear whether DeepSeek’s planned open source release will also include the code the … Read more
Polling suggests the German federal elections on 23 February could produce a fragmented outcome. Valentin Kreilinger argues the time when Germany could act as a source of political stability for the EU now appears long gone. Germany’s federal elections on 23 February will be a crucial moment for the country. The elections were called following … Read more
Password managers have become commonplace at this point. But businesses often have different needs than consumers. Teams, after all, often have to share credentials to access resources, all while IT and security teams need ways to control who has access to them. Passbolt, which is announcing an $8 million seed round Thursday, aims to become … Read more
AI Industry is Trying to Subvert the Definition of “Open Source AI” The Open Source Initiative has published (news article here) its definition of “open source AI,” and it’s terrible. It allows for secret training data and mechanisms. It allows for development to be done in secret. Since for a neural network, the training data … Read more
Oct 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Artificial Intelligence Apple has publicly made available its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) Virtual Research Environment (VRE), allowing the research community to inspect and verify the privacy and security guarantees of its offering. PCC, which Apple unveiled earlier this June, has been marketed as the “most advanced security architecture ever … Read more
