A seductive solution with hidden dangers Synthetic data is often presented as a clever fix for three persistent challenges in machine learning: data scarcity, unfair training distributions and privacy restrictions. At the same time, some argue it could democratise AI development by reducing dependence on large proprietary datasets held by a few dominant companies. But … Read more
Apertus AI is one of the most transparent and technically mature efforts to build a fully open-source large language model. Developed in Switzerland and released together with its source code, training documentation and model weights, it offers an unprecedented level of reproducibility and independence from closed ecosystems. This makes it ideal for researchers, public-sector institutions … Read more
The rapid evolution of fully open large language models represents a transformative moment for countries that possess rich linguistic and cultural heritage. Over the past two years, the global AI community has shown that high-performance LLMs can be built openly, with transparent pipelines, published datasets and weights, and licenses that support both research and commercial … Read more
CESNET very kindly hosted the GÉANT Community Programme (GCP) workshop on 14-15 May at their office in Prague. This is the second time members of the GCP, including the GÉANT Community Committee (GCC), representatives of GCP initiatives, coordinators of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Task Forces (TFs), and SIG Steering Committee members came together … Read more
Our mission at WeatherXM is to create the largest decentralised weather station network. A significant challenge in this direction is how our weather stations should be distributed around the world. The challenging part has to do with Earth’s surface, which is not uniform (a good thing in so many other aspects of our life!). Each … Read more
If you like programming, tinkering, having fun with software and if you are up for a challenge, we have something exciting for you: “Youth Hacking 4 Freedom” (YH4F), the FSFE’s hacking competition for young people from Europe! On top you can win up to €4096 and a trip to Brussels for the award ceremony! Graphic … Read more
We would like to invite you to “Why and How to Switch from Oracle to PostgreSQL” webinar. If you’re considering a migration, this is your opportunity to get a strategic roadmap that helps you reduce Oracle costs and unlock the full potential of Postgres. In this session, you’ll learn how to: Presenters:Mostafa Zakaria, Sales Engineer … Read more
Nominate any individuals or organisations now at https://go.mydata.org/nominate! Self-nominations are allowed and encouraged.You may make as many nominations as you like. Hello to all members, interested people and the wider MyData community. Following our launch event in June (recording here if you missed it), we are pleased to announce that our brand new award programme … Read more
In recent years, several high-profile, single-vendor Open Source projects made the news by switching to more restrictive licenses. Some saw this as a manifestation of evil and greed, questioning the single-vendor model entirely; others interpreted it as a sign of the growing economic unsustainability of Open Source in the current market structure. Both arguments have … Read more
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of AI, opening up new opportunities for research and industry applications. However, LLMs demonstrate impressive capabilities only in high-resource languages, in particular in English, while their performance varies substantially across different languages. Especially in the case of low-resourced languages, such as Greek, existing open-source LLMs are underperforming … Read more
