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Nvidia Announces Robotics-Oriented AI Foundational Model
At its recent GTC 2024 event, Nvidia announced a new foundational model to build intelligent humanoid robots. Dubbed GR00T, short for Generalist Robot 00 Technology, the model will understand natural language and be able to observe human actions and emulate human movements.
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Microsoft AI-Driven Security Tool Copilot for Security is Now GA
Microsoft recently announced the general availability of Copilot for Security, a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) security product designed to help security and IT teams with the capabilities to protect their digital assets.
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Microsoft Azure Introduces Retina: a Cloud Native Container Networking Observability Platform
The Microsoft Azure Container Networking team recently announced an open-source project named Retina. This cloud-native container networking observability platform allows DevOps engineers and administrators to visualize, debug, and analyze workload traffic across diverse environments.
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KubeCon EU Keynotes: a Call to Action to Innovate Responsibly with Generative AI
The KubeCon EU morning keynotes were a veritable call to action encouraging the cloud-native community's involvement in building the scalable infrastructure needed by generative AI. This call was balanced with encouragement to make a cloud-native platform’s “golden path” green and sustainable, ensuring that any innovation is also responsible.
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.NET MAUI Community Toolkit 8.0.0 Brings Touch Behavior
On March 29th, 2024, Microsoft released version 8.0.0 of their open-source MAUI Community Toolkit. The new version adds touch animation behavior, a rewritten Snackbar component and many bug fixes.
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Visual Studio Code: Unity Extension Now Generally Available
Last month, Microsoft announced the general availability of the Unity extension for Visual Studio Code. This extension, built upon the C# Dev Kit and C# extensions, offers a toolkit tailored for Unity development within Visual Studio Code, accessible on Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems.
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Java News Roundup: Jakarta Data and Jakarta NoSQL Milestones, Class-File API Targeted for JDK 23
This week's Java roundup for March 25th, 2024, features news highlighting: JEP 466, Class-File API (Second Preview), targeted for JDK 23; milestone releases of Jakarta Data and Jakarta NoSQL specifications; the second release candidate for JobRunr 7.0.0; and point releases for Spring projects, Quarkus, Helidon and LangChain4j.
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Microsoft Issues Reminder: End of Support for .NET 7 in May
Last week, Microsoft officially stated that .NET 7 will stop to receive support as of May 14, 2024. This means that beyond this date, Microsoft will discontinue issuing any further servicing updates, including critical security fixes or technical assistance for .NET 7. Developers are advised to transition to .NET 8 before the specified end-of-support date to ensure continued support.
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Improving GitHub Deployments with Merge Queue
Recently, Github talked about how they use merge queues for implementing code updates at GitHub. Merge queues have been developed and scaled to manage over 30,000 pull requests, alongside the corresponding 4.5 million CI executions, for GitHub.com.
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Databrix Announces DBRX, an Open Source General Purpose LLM
Databricks launched DBRX, a new open-source large language model (LLM) that aims to redefine the standards of open models and outperform well-known competitors on industry benchmarks.
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Elastic Enhances OpenTelemetry with Profiling Agent, Sharing System Health Insights to the Community
Elastic has recently declared its plan to donate its continuous profiling agent to the OpenTelemetry(OTel) project. This agent is an always-on, continuous profiling solution that eliminates the need for runtime or bytecode instrumentation, recompilation, on-host debug symbols or restarting services.
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Apple Researchers Detail Method to Combine Different LLMs to Achieve State-of-the-Art Performance
Many large language models (LLMs) have become available recently, both closed and open source further leading to the creation of combined models known as Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs). Yet, few or none of them unveil what design choices were made to create them, say Apple researchers who distilled principles and lessons to design state-of-the-art (SOTA) Multimodal LLMs.
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xAI Releases Grok as an Open-Source Large Language Model
Elon Musk announced that xAI would make its AI chatbot Grok open source, and now the release is accessible on GitHub and Hugging Face. This move enables researchers and developers to expand upon the model, influencing how xAI evolves Grok in the face of competition from tech giants like OpenAI, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others.
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Redis Switches to SSPLv1: Restrictive License Sparks Fork by Former Maintainers
Redis has recently announced a change in their license by transitioning from the open-source BSD to the more restrictive Server Side Public License (SSPLv1). The move has promptly led to a fork initiated by former maintainers and reignited discussions surrounding the sustainability of open-source initiatives.
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Netflix Uses Metaflow to Manage Hundreds of AI/ML Applications at Scale
Netflix recently published how its Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team provides an ecosystem around Metaflow, an open-source machine learning infrastructure framework. By creating various integrations for Metaflow, Netflix already has hundreds of Metaflow projects maintained by multiple engineering teams.