Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

LiteLLM allows developers to integrate a diverse range of LLM models as if they were calling OpenAI’s API, with support for fallbacks, budgets, rate limits, and real-time monitoring of API calls. The ...

I’ve been writing about the democratic future of large language models (LLMs). Will this tech turn out to be an inherently centralized, authoritarian technology like nuclear power, or a more ...

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If a piece of software is available under a license rubber stamped as “open source” ...

Understanding precisely how the output of a large language model (LLM) matches with training data has long been a mystery and a challenge for enterprise IT. A new open-source effort launched this week ...

DSPy (short for Declarative Self-improving Python) is an open-source Python framework created by researchers at Stanford University. Described as a toolkit for “programming, rather than prompting, ...