Open Source

Wassette: A bridge between Wasm and MCP

Microsoft’s new open-source tool kit offers a way to assemble lightweight and secure Model Context Protocol servers from WebAssembly components.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 14, 20257 mins

Development Libraries and FrameworksGenerative AIRust

Articles

Redis bets big on an open source return

The company is hopeful that changing its license will allow it to better compete with the Valkey fork.

By Matt Asay

May 1, 2025 6 mins

NoSQL DatabasesOpen SourceTechnology Industry

Open source has a 'massive role to play' in AI orchestration platforms, says Microsoft CEO

Nadella also revealed that AI has built up to 30% of the code currently in Microsoft’s repositories.

By Taryn Plumb

Apr 30, 2025 7 mins

Artificial IntelligenceOpen Source

OpenSearch in 2025: Much more than an Elasticsearch fork

With aggressive improvements in performance and scalability, OpenSearch is following its public road map to widespread success.

By Matt Asay

Apr 28, 2025 7 mins

Amazon Web ServicesOpen Source

MarkItDown: Microsoft’s open-source tool for Markdown conversion

MarkItDown offers a simple and powerful way to convert documents and media files into Markdown for fine-tuning LLMs or building retrieval-augmented generation systems.

By Janakiram MSV

Apr 24, 2025 5 mins

Development Libraries and FrameworksGenerative AIOpen Source

What GitHub can tell us about the future of open source

The numbers of stars, forks, and commits make a strong case that open source is the basis for everything from containers and devops to machine learning and AI.

By Matt Asay

Apr 21, 2025 7 mins

DevopsGitHubMachine Learning

Onehouse opens up the lakehouse with Open Engines

New addition to the platform, says analyst, ‘breaks the Siamese connection between compute and storage.’

By Paul Barker

Apr 17, 2025 6 mins

Data ArchitectureManaged Cloud ServicesOpen Source

DeepSeek’s open source movement

DeepSeek, and the open source AI ecosystem surrounding it, has rapidly evolved from a ‘moment’ into an unstoppable global force.

By Matt Asay

Apr 14, 2025 6 mins

Generative AIOpen SourceTechnology Industry

OpenTofu becomes the real deal

With an engaged community, compatibility with big-name vendors, and innovative features, the Terraform fork is on an upward trajectory.

By Matt Asay

Mar 24, 2025 7 mins

Open SourceSoftware Development

Baidu’s ERNIE launches ‘signal a global AI race’

Chinese vendor says its latest foundation models will deliver performance on par with DeepSeek R1 at half the price.

By Paul Barker

Mar 17, 2025 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceOpen Source

What is Llama? Meta AI’s family of large language models explained

Llama has evolved beyond a simple language model into a multi-modal AI framework with safety features, code generation, and multi-lingual support.

By Martin Heller

Mar 14, 2025 10 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIOpen Source

At long last, OpenStack (now known as OpenInfra Foundation) joins Linux Foundation

After operating as an independent open-source foundation since 2012, OpenInfra and the OpenStack project are moving to the Linux Foundation.

By Sean Michael Kerner

Mar 12, 2025 1 min

Cloud ComputingOpen Source

Vibes won’t make your software successful

How important is it that software be open? AWS, the Linux Foundation, and Hugging Face all offer different models that show what customers really think.

By Matt Asay

Mar 10, 2025 4 mins

Open SourceSoftware ProvidersTechnology Industry