Open-source solutions power modern enterprises, underlying everything from website builds to ready-made and custom applications. Small and large companies alike leverage open-source office suites, and ...

A new report showcases the 20 top-trending open source startups around the world, more than half of which are closely aligned with AI. Last year’s report demonstrated that AI and data infrastructure ...

It took Microsoft long enough, but the company has finally open-sourced its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) code. The announcement was made at the Build 2025 developer conference, closing a nearly ...

The open-source shift has been spearheaded by AI startup DeepSeek, whose R1 model released earlier this year challenged American tech dominance. Chinese AI companies from big players such as Baidu to ...

Once the domain of idealistic developers and technology companies, open-source software is now deeply embedded in Wall Street’s core infrastructure. Even global banking institutions—a sector ...

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 ...

Chinese open models are spreading fast, from Hugging Face to Silicon Valley. Here’s why that matters. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to ...

Last month, DeepSeek turned the AI world on its head with the release of a new, competitive simulated reasoning model that was free to download and use under an MIT license. Now, the company is ...

Following the removal last week of Russian Linux kernel maintainers to comply with US policies, Linus Torvalds – the developer of the original Linux kernel – spoke about his concerns that there were ...