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SiFive raises $400m Series G at $3.65bn valuation in final round before IPO

SiFive has raised $400 million in Series G funding at a $3.65 billion valuation, marking the final round before its IPO. The investment round was led by Atreides Management and included Nvidia and Apollo Global Management.

Apr 1020

Meta has a competitive AI model but loses its open-source identity

This article explains what open-source AI means, how it works, and why it matters for innovation and competition in the tech world.

Apr 931

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Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done

Tech enthusiasts can transform old Kindles—including bricked devices—into open-source reading platforms through jailbreaking techniques. This revival approach extends device lifespan and promotes open-source principles.

Apr 816

Microsoft open-source toolkit secures AI agents at runtime

Microsoft releases an open-source toolkit to enhance runtime security for AI agents, addressing growing concerns about autonomous language models executing code and bypassing traditional controls.

Apr 827

Microsoft's Bing team open-sources "Harrier" embedding model

This article explains the technical aspects of embedding models and how Microsoft's Harrier model achieves superior multilingual performance while remaining compact and efficient.

Apr 719

Google's Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI - even on phones

Google's Gemma 4 model is now fully open-source under Apache 2.0, enabling powerful local AI deployment on devices ranging from servers to smartphones and Raspberry Pi computers.

Apr 221

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How AI has suddenly become much more useful to open-source developers

Learn to build an AI-assisted code review tool that helps open-source developers identify code quality issues and security vulnerabilities in legacy projects.

Mar 3137

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French open-source orchestration platform Kestra raises $25M

French open-source orchestration platform Kestra has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by RTP Global, bringing its total funding to $36 million. The company has seen enterprise revenue grow 25x in 18 months and executed over 2 billion workflows in 2025.

Mar 3133

Mistral AI Releases Voxtral TTS: A 4B Open-Weight Streaming Speech Model for Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Generation

Learn how Voxtral TTS works, what it means for developers, and why it's a breakthrough in AI voice technology.

Mar 2829

Mistral's first open-weight TTS model Voxtral clones voices from three seconds of audio across nine languages

French AI startup Mistral has released Voxtral, its first open-weight text-to-speech model that supports nine languages and can clone voices from just three seconds of audio.

Mar 2629

OpenSeeker's open-source approach aims to break up the data monopoly for AI search agents

Learn how to build a basic open-source AI search agent using Python and TF-IDF vectorization, similar to OpenSeeker's approach.

Mar 2323

Cursor quietly built its new coding model on top of Chinese open-source Kimi K2.5

Learn how Cursor used an open-source Chinese AI model to build a new coding tool that’s both powerful and affordable. This shows how AI development is becoming more collaborative and efficient.

Mar 2050