Open Source

Mistral AI’s Meteoric Rise: Inside the $14B Open-Source Gambit Challenging OpenAI

The Making of an Open-Source AI Juggernaut Founded in Paris in spring 2023, Mistral AI burst onto the scene with bold ambition: to challenge the likes of OpenAI and Google by doing things differently. Its three co-founders – Arthur Mensch (CEO, ex-DeepMind), Timothée Lacroix (CTO, ex-Meta AI) and Guillaume Lample (Chief Science Officer, ex-Meta) – left Big Tech research jobs to build foundation models on their own terms techcrunch.com techcrunch.com. The company’s very name (a “mistral” is a strong wind in Southern France) hints at its mission to blow fresh air into AI development techcrunch.com. Mensch and team saw that “proprietary [AI] was becoming

14 September 2025

The Open-Source GPT Revolution: How Free LLMs Are Reshaping AI

March 2021: EleutherAI released GPT-Neo at 2.7 billion parameters, the first free open alternative to GPT-3, under the MIT license. June 2021: EleutherAI released GPT-J at 6 billion parameters under the Apache 2.0 license, boosting startups in open GPT development. July 2022: The BigScience project released BLOOM at 176 billion parameters, covering 46 languages and released under the Responsible AI License. May 2022: Meta AI released OPT at 175 billion parameters under a non-commercial research license, including a logbook documenting the training process. February 2023: Meta AI unveiled LLaMA with 7B, 13B, 33B, and 65B models, and the weights leaked

8 August 2025

AI · Innovation · LLMs · Open Source · Technology

Why iOS Isn’t Open Source: The Secrets Behind Apple’s Walled Garden

Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, originally naming the OS iPhone OS and presenting it as OS X with desktop-class applications to emphasize hardware–software integration. The App Store launched in 2008, with every native app required to use Apple’s SDK and undergo Apple’s review and guidelines. Apple released the Darwin core under the Apple Public Source License, and in 2017 posted the ARM64 iOS kernel source publicly, while higher‑level iOS remains closed. In 2015 Apple open-sourced the Swift programming language under an Apache license. iOS is tightly integrated with Apple hardware, including the Neural Engine and Secure Enclave, enabling optimizations

18 June 2025

Apple · iOS · Open Source · Privacy · Teknologi