As AI-driven development accelerates, ownership and maintenance questions grow. Here’s how open source offers a path forward.

While we can’t help but be inundated by news of this or that latest model, open source keeps quietly chugging away in the background. CNCF now hosts more than 230 projects with more than 300,000 ...

Chinese open models are spreading fast, from Hugging Face to Silicon Valley. Here’s why that matters. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to ...

We talk about open source software in the wrong way. The conversation always comes back to cost savings, licensing fees and avoiding vendor lock-in. These things matter, but they're not why open ...

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often ...

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek app is seen on a phone in front of a flag of China on Jan. 28, 2025, in Hong Kong, China. (Photo illustration by Anthony ...

TechRepublic covers the full range of open source software with reviews, tutorials, and advice for how to get it and integrate it into your environment.

Every time a developer types npm install, they are placing a bet that the package they are pulling into their project is not ...

Google's Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI - even on phones ...