Étiquette : open source (Page 1 of 3)

An exclusive conversation with the developer of REA, the viral AI reverse engineering tool

8 novembre 2026 / noflux

Since our first conversation with Morluto, some social media users have reported OpenAI and Anthropic banning or blocking their use of REA. In a reply on X, an OpenAI researcher called the block on reverse engineering “mostly accidental.”

Morluto isn’t worried. If anything, he says, the “fiasco” just brings more attention to the project and to the kind of discovery he was aiming for. “That’s the core of Reverse Engineer Anything,” he says. “It’s a road that leads you to question what it is that you want.”

Accidental or not, such obstacles are unlikely to stop people who really want to reverse engineer their devices. Castillo already has a fallback in GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from the Chinese company Z.ai. Once it’s downloaded, no one can take it away.

Source: An exclusive conversation with the developer of REA, the viral AI reverse engineering tool | Scientific American

xai-org/x-algorithm: Algorithm powering the For You feed on X

20 janvier 2026 / noflux

“The For You feed algorithm retrieves, ranks, and filters posts from two sources: In-Network (Thunder): Posts from accounts you follow Out-of-Network (Phoenix Retrieval): Posts discovered from a global corpusBoth sources are combined and ranked together using Phoenix, a Grok-based transformer model that predicts engagement probabilities for each post. The final score is a weighted combination of these predicted engagements.We have eliminated every single hand-engineered feature and most heuristics from the system. The Grok-based transformer does all the heavy lifting by understanding your engagement history (what you liked, replied to, shared, etc.) and using that to determine what content is relevant to you.”

Source : xai-org/x-algorithm: Algorithm powering the For You feed on X

The Open Source AI Definition – 1.0 – Open Source Initiative

29 octobre 2024 / noflux

“What is Open Source AIWhen we refer to a “system,” we are speaking both broadly about a fully functional structure and its discrete structural elements. To be considered Open Source, the requirements are the same, whether applied to a system, a model, weights and parameters, or other structural elements.An Open Source AI is an AI system made available under terms and in a way that grant the freedoms1 to: Use the system for any purpose and without having to ask for permission. Study how the system works and inspect its components. Modify the system for any purpose, including to change its output. Share the system for others to use with or without modifications, for any purpose.These freedoms apply both to a fully functional system and to discrete elements of a system. A precondition to exercising these freedoms is to have access to the preferred form to make modifications to the system.”

Source : The Open Source AI Definition – 1.0 – Open Source Initiative

The Open Source AI Definition – draft v. 0.0.9 – Open Source Initiative

28 août 2024 / noflux

“An Open Source AI is an AI system made available under terms and in a way that grant the freedoms to:

Use the system for any purpose and without having to ask for permission.

Study how the system works and inspect its components.

Modify the system for any purpose, including to change its output.

Share the system for others to use with or without modifications, for any purpose.

These freedoms apply both to a fully functional system and to discrete elements of a system. A precondition to exercising these freedoms is to have access to the preferred form to make modifications to the system.”

Source : The Open Source AI Definition – draft v. 0.0.9 – Open Source Initiative

PyPI temporarily pauses new users, projects amid high volume of malware

21 mai 2023 / noflux

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“As of today, the Python Package Index, more commonly known as PyPI, has temporarily suspended new user registrations and project creations until further notice. « New user and new project name registration on PyPI is temporarily suspended, » states an incident notice posted by PyPI admins today, May 20th. « The volume of malicious users and malicious projects being created on the index in the past week has outpaced our ability to respond to it in a timely fashion, especially with multiple PyPI administrators on leave. »”

Source : PyPI temporarily pauses new users, projects amid high volume of malware

ImageBind: Holistic AI learning across six modalities

14 mai 2023 / noflux

“ImageBind is part of Meta’s efforts to create multimodal AI systems that learn from all possible types of data around them. As the number of modalities increases, ImageBind opens the floodgates for researchers to try to develop new, holistic systems, such as combining 3D and IMU sensors to design or experience immersive, virtual worlds. ImageBind could also provide a rich way to explore memories — searching for pictures, videos, audio files or text messages using a combination of text, audio, and image. ”

Source : ImageBind: Holistic AI learning across six modalities

Google « We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI »

14 mai 2023 / noflux

“At the beginning of March the open source community got their hands on their first really capable foundation model, as Meta’s LLaMA was leaked to the public. It had no instruction or conversation tuning, and no RLHF. Nonetheless, the community immediately understood the significance of what they had been given. A tremendous outpouring of innovation followed, with just days between major developments (see The Timeline for the full breakdown). Here we are, barely a month later, and there are variants with instruction tuning, quantization, quality improvements, human evals, multimodality, RLHF, etc. etc. many of which build on each other. Most importantly, they have solved the scaling problem to the extent that anyone can tinker. Many of the new ideas are from ordinary people. The barrier to entry for training and experimentation has dropped from the total output of a major research organization to one person, an evening, and a beefy laptop.”

Source : Google « We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI »

Qui est Eugen Rochko, le jeune créateur du réseau social Mastodon ?

23 novembre 2022 / noflux

“Défenseur de la philosophie open source, fondée sur la collaboration et l’accessibilité, il en fait la pierre angulaire de Mastodon : « La croyance selon laquelle les gens devraient pouvoir voir, étudier, modifier et redistribuer le code du logiciel qu’ils utilisent est un positionnement politique. L’objectif est de redonner le pouvoir aux individus. »L’antithèse d’Elon Musk« Les discours haineux limitent la liberté d’expression d’autrui », tranche celui qui s’oppose à la philosophie d’Elon Musk, partisan d’une liberté d’expression absolue. En 2014, Eugen Rochko est marqué par la controverse du « GamerGate », une vaste campagne internationale de harcèlement sexiste en ligne qui visait les développeuses. Il a souhaité faire de Mastodon un « endroit préservé de ce genre d’agissements ».”

Source : Qui est Eugen Rochko, le jeune créateur du réseau social Mastodon ?

Mastodon: Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

23 novembre 2022 / noflux

“Mastodon is free, open-source software licensed under AGPLv3. You can open issues for bugs you’ve found or features you think are missing. You can also submit pull requests to this repository or submit translations using Crowdin. To get started, take a look at CONTRIBUTING.md. If your contributions are accepted into Mastodon, you can request to be paid through our OpenCollective.”

Source : mastodon/mastodon: Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

How to leave Google apps behind

16 novembre 2022 / noflux

A broken Google G and a broken ball-and-chain next to it, representing liberation from Google

“There are many reasons you might want to move away from Google, especially in light of some of the recent policy changes regarding Workspaces. Depending on your exact reasons for leaving, there are more or less attractive alternatives to some of Google’s most popular apps. In particular, those can be divided into online web services that, similar to Google, give you access to services via an online account, and self-hosted options like NextCloud and/or apps that can be installed on your own infrastructure, or using instances of your own infrastructure on cloud hosting or web hosting services. These options are attractive for the fact that they allow you to control your own data and maintain the protection of your data. Migrating to these services can be quite easy, whether for email, file sharing, or other services. With these services, it all starts with your domain name.”

Source : How to leave Google apps behind