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Stanford’s AI Index Highlights Growing Divide Between Open and Proprietary Models

 In 2024, nearly 90% of the world’s most notable AI models came out of industry. Just a year prior, that figure was 60%. As the scale, cost, and compute ...Full Article

AI Needs Its Linux: Oumi Comes Out of Stealth with an Open Source Vision

A new company called Oumi has just been launched, emerging from stealth today with $10 million in seed funding. The company’s founders describe Oumi as the world’s first unconditionally open source ...Full Article

Nvidia’s Blackwell Platform Powers AI Progress in Open Compute Project

Nvidia announced it has contributed foundational elements of its Blackwell accelerated computing platform design to the Open Compute Project (OCP). Shared at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose ...Full Article

‘Every Tech Company Will Be an AI Company’: Hugging Face’s $235M Vote of Confidence

Hugging Face announced it has raised $235 million in a Series D funding round led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from a host of tech giants including IBM, Google, ...Full Article