This project aims to reproduce OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora. It is currently building out the basic components and searching for interested open-source contributors to assist.

Elon Musk shared on X that Grok, xAI's language model, will be open sourced in the coming days.

AMD has agreed to open source the firmware for its Radeon GPUs. This means the community can quickly improve AI frameworks and potentially AMD adoption.

The recent Redis license change by Redis Labs (aka Garantia Data) is a harmful move that disregards the contributions of the wider Redis community. Garantia Data didn't create Redis. Redis was initially an independent open-source project and Garantia Data only became involved years after its creation. Redis’ widespread adoption was thanks to the open-source community and Amazon’s ElastiCache, not due to the company itself.

This author worked full-time on an open-source project for 503 days and learned a large number of lessons, such as how to interact properly with project users and contributors. He shares the importance of using your online presence to find opportunities and embracing feedback during code reviews instead of being defensive.

The Linux Foundation is fighting against the rise of faux open source licenses such as BSL and SSPL. It is actively promoting open source projects such as OpenTofu and Valkey, whose faux open source parent companies switched to more restrictive licenses after profiting on top of open source projects. While some companies are ticked off by the move, the Linux Foundation is simply defending the method these businesses used to build their fortunes on in the first place.

Postgres Message Queue is a lightweight, open-source message queue.

This thread discusses the different ways open source work can help in one's career. For those without certificates from higher education, open source can work as a CV, demonstrating work to potential employers. Contributing to open source can also widen your network and help you find employment. Working with open source can help develop the ability to jump into other people's codebases very quickly, allowing you to become more efficient quickly. It also shows that you can complete tasks/projects without anyone telling you exactly what to do.

FreeDOS, an open source version of DOS, is turning 30 years old. The project was started in 1994 by Jim Hall, who wanted to preserve the command line experience after Microsoft stopped developing DOS. Over the years, FreeDOS has thrived due to its strong community. To keep the project going, the FreeDOS team maintains a website, shares updates on social media, and actively solicits contributions from developers.

Mark Zuckerberg outlined why open source is key to Meta's strategy and how Meta plans to support this work.

This project uses breadth-first search to identify connections between a GitHub user and Linus Torvalds.

There was a controversy surrounding Microsoft's commitment to open-source development, specifically regarding the .NET framework. Microsoft was seemingly starting to shift away from open-source practices by removing features like "Hot Reload" from the .NET SDK and making them exclusive to Visual Studio. However, the community's strong reaction to this prompted Microsoft to reverse its decision and bring back Hot Reload as an open-source feature.