IBM, Red Hat pledge $5 billion for AI-driven open source security initiative

Under the new project, dubbed Project Lightwell, the companies said they will deploy a global force of 20,000 engineers, ...

IBM commits $5 billion to secure open-source software

May 28 (Reuters) - IBM said on Thursday it has committed $5 billion to an initiative that will deploy engineers and AI tools ...

Open-source security is a mess - IBM and Red Hat bet $5 billion and 20,000 engineers can fix it

Open-source security is a mess - IBM and Red Hat bet $5 billion and 20,000 engineers can fix it ...

Mythos was the critical trigger for IBM's open-source cybersecurity push, Krishna says

IBM has signed Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Bank of America onto its open-source cybersecurity effort called ...
Forbes

What Leaders Need To Know About Open-Source Vs. Proprietary Models

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek logo is seen next to the Chat GPT logo on a phone on January 28, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo illustration by Anthony ...
Tech Times

AI Agent Business Models Split Four Ways: Open-Source Infrastructure, Token Distribution, SaaS, Acquisition

OpenClaw and Hermes Agent win GitHub stars and inference tokens, Genspark crossed $200 million in annual revenue, and Manus ...

Inside Pinterest's efforts to replace expensive AI with open-source models

Pinterest uses a multimodal generative AI strategy to lower computing costs. Their approach includes OpenAI's and Alibaba's large language models.
Dark Reading

Open Source AI Models: Perfect Storm for Malicious Code, Vulnerabilities

Attackers are finding more and more ways to post malicious projects to Hugging Face and other repositories for open source artificial intelligence (AI) models, while dodging the sites' security checks ...
Fast Company

Why OpenAI’s open-source models matter

OpenAI is opening up again. The company’s release of two “open-weight” models—gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—this month marks a major shift from its 2019 pivot away from transparency, when it began ...