Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI (GenAI) and, within it, large language models (LLMs), have taken the industry by storm. Companies around the world are evaluating and implementing ...

Some say, “data is the new oil,” with an air of seriousness. And while the phrase may capture a certain truth about the modern digital economy, it fails to model the way that bits can be copied again ...

The Overture Maps Foundation, a project to standardize map data, was founded in December 2022 by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, and is hosted by the Linux Foundation. I talked to Marc Prioleau ...

The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the artificial intelligence space, in part ...

Today, at its annual Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced that it is open-sourcing its core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, making it available to the entire Apache ...

The best map data and the most advanced mapping features have been proprietary. The Overture Maps Foundation aims to change that. The trend of open data is taking hold around the world and it will ...

Open data must transition to decentralized infrastructure to realize its full potential and reap the benefits of affordable LLM training, accessible research data sharing and unstoppable DApp hosting.