10 Best Articles on Open Source
The most useful articles on open source from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Open Source Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on open source by Refind users in 2023.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on open source—all under 10 minutes.
Google "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI"
Leaked Internal Google Document Claims Open Source AI Will Outcompete Google and OpenAI
«Research institutions all over the world are building on each other’s work, exploring the solution space in a breadth-first way that far outstrips our own capacity.»
OpenAI co-founder on company’s past approach to openly sharing research: “We were wrong”
Should AI research be open or closed? Experts disagree.
How to train your own Large Language Models
Shared by 302, including Replit ⠕, Dayyan Smith, Amjad Masad, Mike Tamir, PhD, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
How Open Source is eating AI
Why the best delivery mechanism for AI is not APIs
«Dreambooth cycle (finetuned text to image with few shot learning of a subject to insert in a scene).»
Open Source Punk Sci-Fi Art Collection by Pablo Stanley
Transhumans, a collection of black and white illustrations inspired by punk rock, transhumanism, and minimalist Japanese art. Created by Pablo Stanley, these open-source pieces are free to download…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on open source.
Why is open source software so badly designed?
It's not just a matter of developers acting friendlier or designers acting less egoistically.
So you want to build your own open source chatbot…
A small team within Mozilla’s innovation group recently undertook a hackathon to build a trustworthy internal chatbot prototype.
Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio
By joining the Open Invention Network, Microsoft is offering its entire patent portfolio -- with the legacy exception of its Windows and desktop application code -- to all of the open-source patent consortium's members.
Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture
I used to think GitHub Codespaces would help popularise Gitpod but now realize it is the other way around. Gitpod is currently permitted to exist in the Visual Studio Code ecosystem to popularise…
The Gullible Software Altruist
On corporate abuse of free and open-source software, particularly as it relates to GitHub's Copilot, and explaining why & how I began self-hosting my own code.
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