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Indonesia Tech Leaders Team With NVIDIA and Partners to Launch Nation’s AI

Indonesia’s technology leaders have launched an initiative to bring sovereign AI to the nation’s more than 277 million Indonesian speakers.
The collaboration is grounded in a broad public-private partnership that reflects the nation’s concept of “gotong royong,” a term describing a spirit of mutual assistance and community collaboration.
Sahabat-AI is a collection of open-source Indonesian large language models (LLMs) that local industries, government agencies, universities and research centers can use to create generative AI applications.
Built with NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA NIM microservices, the models were launched today at Indonesia AI Day.
Artificial intelligence will democratize technology. It is the great equalizer,” said Jensen Huang, NVIDIA founder and CEO.
NVIDIA subsidiary Lintasarta built the high-performance AI cloud within three months, bolstered by the NVIDIA Cloud Partner program.
IOH is developing applications for industry-specific use cases based on its new AI cloud, Sahabat-AI and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform.
Hippocratic AI is using the models, the NVIDIA AI platform and IOH’s sovereign AI cloud to develop digital agents that can have humanlike conversations, exhibit empathic qualities, and build rapport and trust with patients across Indonesia.
Indonesia’s leading on-demand transport services, GoTo, is adopting and enhancing the new Sahabat-AI models to integrate with its AI voice assistant, called Dira.
Beyond Indonesia, NVIDIA NIM microservices are bolstering sovereign AI models that support local languages in India, Japan, Taiwan and many other countries and regions.

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Red Hat to acquire AI optimization startup Neural Magic

Red Hat Inc. plans to acquire AI optimization startup Neural Magic.
Neural Magic specializes in optimizing AI models to run on different hardware, including CPUs and GPUs.
The acquisition will enhance Red Hat's ability to support AI deployments across hybrid cloud environments.
Neural Magic's expertise in model deployment and the open-source project vLLM played a key role in the acquisition.

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LocalStack nabs $25M investment for its public cloud emulator

Swiss developer tooling provider LocalStack GmbH has raised $25 million in an early-stage funding round.
The funding round was led by Notable Capital, with participation from CRV and Heavybit.
LocalStack offers an open-source tool that allows developers to emulate an Amazon Web Services environment on their local machines.
The platform helps developers test cloud applications, infrastructure configurations, and enables chaos engineering and database migration testing.

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Introducing MonitorFlow: An Open-Source SaaS for Real-Time Monitoring and Analytics

MonitorFlow is an open-source SaaS for real-time monitoring and analytics.
It offers a free, flexible, and extensible solution for monitoring applications and infrastructure.
MonitorFlow brings exciting features and invites contributions from the community.
Contributors can gain hands-on open source experience and make a real impact on shaping MonitorFlow.

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Dapr graduates to become a CNCF top-level project

Dapr, the open-source runtime for building distributed applications, has graduated from the CNCF's incubating projects to become a top-level project.
To reach this level, a project must be stable, well-documented, have active maintainers, and gain market traction.
Dapr aims to simplify distributed application development and has been supported by over 3,700 contributors from 400 organizations, with tens of thousands of users.
Future plans for Dapr include adding a conversational AI API in the next release to enable developers to work with various language models.

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Broadcom’s VMware strategy is winning despite market friction

Broadcom's acquisition of VMware is proceeding as planned, with customer conversations and recent surveys showing that VMware's more narrow focus and cost discipline are allowing Broadcom to integrate VMware into its highly successful business model.
Despite media backlash over licensing changes, Broadcom has done extensive total cost of ownership and economic analysis that appears quite defensible.
The study showed that at least 80% of respondents have been affected by the changes Broadcom has implemented to VMware packaging and pricing.
Broadcom's strategy focuses on narrowing down the number of choices customers have across the VMware portfolio, offering a full bundle of VCF with all its value inside.
Customers are actively moving low-value workloads off VMware, but most mission-critical work is staying put, allowing Broadcom to dramatically increase the contribution from its software business.
For competitors, Broadcom’s non-GAAP operating margins are traditionally four to six times better those of most virtualization competitors and partners, driving new top-line revenue and opening up new vectors of growth in a market that previously was untouchable with VMware’s historical model.
Broadcom's valuation is roughly 25 to 30 times adjusted EBITDA, at an $8.5 billion EBITDA target, that's roughly $200 billion to $250 billion in incremental market value.
Our belief is that much of the trade press negative narrative is misplaced, while competitors to VMware are undoubtedly seeing activity, concluding that this spells bad news for Broadcom and VMware is also misguided.
Broadcom seems to be executing ahead of expectations on its VMware progress and is establishing the basis for a long-term platform asset that will be an industry force for the next decade and perhaps beyond.
Customers should spend ample time understanding VMware’s AI roadmap and should evaluate their workload portfolio, move workloads to an alternative that may save them money or write bigger checks to Broadcom if necessary.

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Fixie AI Introduces Ultravox v0.4.1: A Family of Open Speech Models Trained Specifically for Enabling Real-Time Conversation with LLMs and An Open-Weight Alternative to GPT-4o Realtime

Fixie AI introduces Ultravox v0.4.1, a family of multi-modal, open-source models trained specifically for enabling real-time conversations with AI.
Ultravox v0.4.1 incorporates the ability to handle multiple input formats, such as text, images, and other sensory data.
The models are built using a transformer-based architecture optimized to process multiple types of data in parallel, achieving impressive latency reduction.
Ultravox v0.4.1 offers an open-weight alternative to closed-source models like GPT-4, making advanced conversational AI more accessible and adaptable.

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Introducing the .NET Aspire Community Toolkit

The .NET Aspire Community Toolkit has been officially released, offering integrations and extensions for building with .NET Aspire, with support for .NET Aspire 9.
The Community Toolkit allows third-party contributions to the .NET Aspire ecosystem, offering additional integrations and extensions.
Currently, the Toolkit includes nearly a dozen integrations, such as Ollama hosting, Go and Java/Spring application hosting, and additional features for Node.js.
To get started with the .NET Aspire Community Toolkit, users can install it from NuGet and follow the provided documentation and examples.

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ActiveState relaunching its platform for open source management

ActiveState, which previously managed open source dynamic programming languages, has rebranded and released an open source management platform to help users streamline DevSecOps, manage open source risks and ensure supply chain security with tools for discovery, analysis, remediation and governance.
It proactively manages open-source risks, and ensures reproducible builds and streamlines upgrades, reducing the burden on developers.
Most software applications today are less secure than they have ever been, Baker said.
Software supply chain attacks are expected to double by 2030, to about $140 billion. Organizations need to become much more proactive in how they manage open source, using tools to enforce policies that cause the least amount of disruption to the development process and foster greater collaboration, said ActiveState CEO, Stephen Baker.
Among the capabilities of new ActiveState Open Source Management Platform are the ability to discover open source, monitor it through a single dashboard, and facilitate analysis, prioritisation, policy and governance.
ActiveState integrates with existing tools to keep the open source current and more secure. It eliminates 90% of the undifferentiated heavy lifting that every developer needs to do to research dependencies, upgrades, and risk before integrating new open-source into their organization.
ActiveState offers an open source supply chain security platform that is built on automation to provide timely insights into how vulnerable open source is and what developers should do to make it less vulnerable.
The platform is for customers to manage their own open-source that they are consuming, a much more secure format that will improve the application security posture and, in return, not destroy developer productivity.
With ActiveState, there is no reactive model. Instead, it applies all the rules and policies even before open-source gets into user's organizations, so that clean and compliant open source is incorporated when the application is being built.
Every organization on the planet is now dependent on open source, and threat actors and cyber attackers are now depending on the lack of organizational controls on open source to plan their next attack.

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Qwen2.5-Coder just changed the game for AI programming—and it’s free

Alibaba Cloud has released Qwen2.5-Coder, a new AI coding assistant.
The release includes six model variants, making advanced AI coding accessible to developers with different computing resources.
Qwen2.5-Coder's success stems from refined data processing, synthetic data generation, and balanced training datasets.
Unlike its closed-source competitors, most Qwen2.5-Coder models carry the permissive Apache 2.0 license, allowing free integration into products.

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Qwen Open Sources the Powerful, Diverse, and Practical Qwen2.5-Coder Series (0.5B/1.5B/3B/7B/14B/32B)

Qwen has open-sourced the Qwen2.5-Coder series, dedicated to promoting open CodeLLMs.
The Qwen2.5-Coder series offers models ranging from 0.5B to 32B parameters, providing flexibility for coding needs.
Qwen2.5-Coder has achieved state-of-the-art performance in multiple evaluation benchmarks and excels in multi-programming language capabilities.
The availability of models in various parameter sizes ensures scalability and accessibility for developers.

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Google DeepMind open-sources AlphaFold 3, ushering in a new era for drug discovery and molecular biology

Google DeepMind has released the source code and model weights of AlphaFold 3 for academic use, advancing scientific discovery and drug development.
AlphaFold 3 can model the interactions between proteins, DNA, RNA, and small molecules, transforming it into a comprehensive solution for studying molecular biology.
The release balances open science and commercial interests, with freely available code and controlled access to model weights.
AlphaFold 3's technical advances and improved accuracy in predicting molecular interactions have implications for drug discovery and other fields.

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AIM Weekly #163 for 11 Nov 2024

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Hugging Face Releases Sentence Transformers v3.3.0: A Major Leap for NLP Efficiency

Hugging Face has released Sentence Transformers v3.3.0, a major update with significant advancements especially for efficiency and usability for a broader audience.
The latest version is packed with features that address performance bottlenecks, enhance usability, and offer new training paradigms.
This latest version has a 4.5x speedup for CPU inference by integrating OpenVINO’s int8 static quantization.
The integration of OpenVINO Post-Training Static Quantization allows models to run 4.78 times faster on CPUs with no performance drop.
The introduction of training with prompts improves the performance in retrieval tasks by 0.66% to 0.90% without any additional computational overhead.
PEFT integration allows for more scalability in training and deploying models reducing memory requirements.
The ability to evaluate on NanoBEIR adds an extra layer of assurance that the models trained using v3.3.0 can generalize well across diverse tasks.
The release shows Hugging Face’s commitment to enhancing computational efficiency, making these models more accessible across a wide range of use cases.
This update ticks all the right boxes for developers, ensuring models are not just powerful but also efficient, versatile, and easier to integrate into various deployment scenarios.

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Open source projects draw equity-free funding from corporates, startups, and even VCs

Various sector players are stepping up with funding initiatives to support open-source tech including startups, corporations, and venture capital firms.
While some open source software has the potential to be commercialised, many projects are difficult to monetise.
Funding programmes include reactive initiatives such as the $30m pledge launched in response to the Log4Shell security flaw, and proactive offerings driven by various industry giants.
Sequoia Capital has launched an open source fellowship to support project maintainers with equity-free capital of up to $100,000 for up to 12 months, while Andreessen Horowitz launched an open source AI grant program in 2020.
Chatbot Arena and vLLM are two projects selected for Sequoia’s fellowship. Both were birthed out of UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab and have PhD researchers working on them. These were funded by Sequoia at $100K each for this year.
Founder of AI Factory, Eno Reyes, has confirmed that his company uses Chatbot Arena to keep track of the top LLM options.
Sentry, a developer tooling unicorn, has launched the Open Source Pledge to encourage companies to get involved in donating to open source projects.
The Open Source Pledge calls for contributions of at least $2,000 per year for each developer on staff.
Sentry has committed $750,000 this year and has over two dozen members signed up to the Pledge at the time of writing.
Accel partner Dan Levine said, The open source community, particularly on the demand side, needs to reassess its strategies and make more informed decisions to support critical projects".

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