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Should LLMs and generative AI be more open and transparent? The mood music says yes. But what does ‘open’ really mean?

Should LLMs and generative AI be more open and transparent? The mood music says yes. But what does ‘open’ really mean?
Onymos reckons it offers a way to cut back on the long-standing 'law’' that 70% of all IT budgets must be spent on maintaining existing applications, rather than innovating new ones.
Telecommunications giant Vodafone is exploring how Confluent technology can play a key role in helping to make roads a safer place for everyone.
Academic publishing specialist Frontiers Media is using Confluent technology to ensure its customers have access to the data they need in a flexible and effective manner.
Pollinate was born out of the idea that banks should take control of their merchant experiences for SMB clients. To do that it needed to understand payments data through the use of Confluent Cloud.
This week - Zoom sparks an AI privacy debate with a controversial terms and conditions update. Open source hits a commercial 'fork' in the road, and does ESG have the regulatory teeth to put 'sexy' generative AI on the IT spending back burner? Your whiffs are back, and so am I.
Transitioning off monolithic to a MACH-based headless and best-of-breed e-commerce solution is making Rapha’s operations more efficient
Confluent’s Q2 2023 earnings show significant cloud growth and large customers spending more with the platform.
We did it with Red Hat OpenShift; we'll do the same again with generative AI, argues IBM boss.
This week - as regulatory pressures mount, CIOs and CTOs are in the generative AI hot seat of opportunity. "Creepy gamification" gets skewered, as does crypto-blockchain. Oracle and Red Hat tussle over open source, and I'm in the whiffs section.
Pressures growing around the issue of sustainability are already starting to bring forth a new form of fruit, where open source software is being used to develop new ways of controlling energy-hungry applications out in the real world.
Former Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says that digital innovation and flexibility demands new systems, processes and culture - posing challenges for established enterprises.
Mapping and navigation specialist TomTom has a new vision of the future
Day one of the GitHub Universe event in San Francisco saw an enthusiastic audience celebrate the success of open source development in recent years
The Homeland Security department is hoping that it can move from spreadsheets and email exchanges, to real-time event streaming with Confluent, in order to better provide immigration services.
KOR is a dedicated trade reporting platform that has adopted Confluent Cloud and a data streaming architecture to improve compliance processes.