Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

On January 20, 2025, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled R1, an open-source large language model (LLM) that is redefining industry expectations. Designed to offer performance on par with proprietary ...

LiteLLM allows developers to integrate a diverse range of LLM models as if they were calling OpenAI’s API, with support for fallbacks, budgets, rate limits, and real-time monitoring of API calls. The ...

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If a piece of software is available under a license rubber stamped as “open source” ...

Qwen 2.5 Coder/Max is currently the top open-source model for coding, with the highest HumanEval (~70–72%), LiveCodeBench (70.7), and Elo (2056) scores among open models. DeepSeek V3/Coder V2 remains ...

In January, assumptions around AI were shaken up by DeepSeek, a small Chinese company that nobody had heard of. This week it was Switzerland’s turn to stir things up. Apertus (Latin for ‘open’) is a ...

I’ve been writing about the democratic future of large language models (LLMs). Will this tech turn out to be an inherently centralized, authoritarian technology like nuclear power, or a more ...