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Today’s piece will be a follow-up to yesterday’s article. We covered the implications of the leaked document containing a Google researchers assessment of the ‘LLM Wars’. Here is what the document had to say about the AI Wars between the Tech Giants Google and Open AI (Microsoft)-
But the uncomfortable truth is, we aren’t positioned to win this arms race and neither is OpenAI. While we’ve been squabbling, a third faction has been quietly eating our lunch.
I’m talking, of course, about open source. Plainly put, they are lapping us. Things we consider “major open problems” are solved and in people’s hands today.
This has left a lot of business leaders/managers reeling. The role of Open Source in tech has been well-known to software engineers, but the people not directly involved with code often overlook open source. Many tech discussion groups I am part of have been discussing open source and its role for companies. In this article, I will be going over how your group can unleash the power of Open Source to help your organization. If you’re still not convinced take a look at the following quotes-
… once you discover the power of the Open Source Platforms (good ones obviously), the corporate senses of ROI, Gross Margins, and EBITDA strikes sweeter chords. I have had the first hand experience with an IOT Project. We had burnt our hands with Azure and then we stumbled across this thing called Thingsboard.io The ROI just blew our roof.
-A tech leader describing the power of open source in their projects
or this article by BCG-
For instance, open source Linux powered 75% of the public cloud workload in 2020, and its share is expected to rise to 85% by 2024. Some of the most popular software development stacks – such as the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) and MEAN (MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, and Node.js) stacks – are open source software. Last year, around 85% of the world’s smartphones ran on Android, the open source operating system built on the open Linux kernel (See Exhibit 1.) Unsurprisingly, the ability to work with open source software is fast becoming a requirement for all software.
This discussion by the Forbes Technology Council is a good discussion on some pros and cons of Open Source. No matter, what source you prefer one thing should be clear- open source is powerful. As a tech leader (or someone aspiring to become one, as many of you have stated) it is important to know how to use this powerful movement in tech.
How Businesses/Organizations can unleash Open Source
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