Open-Source

We’re sharing details about Glean, Meta’s open source system for collecting, deriving, and working with facts about source code. In this blog post we’ll talk about why a system like Glean is important, explain the rationale for Glean’s design, and run through some of the ways we’re using Glean to supercharge our developer tooling at [...] Read More... The post Indexing code at scale with Glean appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Content streaming and engagement are entering a new dimension with QUEEN, an AI model by NVIDIA Research and the University of Maryland that makes it possible to stream free-viewpoint video, which lets viewers experience a 3D scene from any angle. QUEEN could be used to build immersive streaming applications that teach skills like cooking, put Read Article

TL;DR The Spotify FOSS Fund is back again! We created the Spotify FOSS Fund in 2022 to help support the [...] The post Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2024 Spotify FOSS Fund appeared first on Spotify Engineering.

GitHub’s annual month-long game jam, where creativity knows no limits! Throughout November, dive into your favorite game engines, libraries, and programming languages to bring your wildest game ideas to life. Whether you're a seasoned dev or just getting started, it’s all about having fun and making something awesome! The post Game Off 2024 theme announcement appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Cloudflare’s global fleet benefits from being managed by open source firmware for the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), OpenBMC. This has come with various challenges, some of which we discuss here with an explanation of how the open source nature of the firmware for the BMC enabled us to fix the issues and maintain a more stable fleet.

At Open Compute Project Summit (OCP) 2024, we’re sharing details about our next-generation network fabric for our AI training clusters. We’ve expanded our network hardware portfolio and are contributing two new disaggregated network fabrics and a new NIC to OCP. We look forward to continued collaboration with OCP to open designs for racks, servers, storage [...] Read More... The post OCP Summit 2024: The open future of networking hardware for AI appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2024, we’re showcasing our latest open AI hardware designs with the OCP community. These innovations include a new AI platform, cutting-edge open rack designs, and advanced network fabrics and components.  By sharing our designs, we hope to inspire collaboration and foster innovation. If you’re passionate about building [...] Read More... The post Meta’s open AI hardware vision appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Git 2.47 is here, with features like incremental multi-pack indexes and more. Check out our coverage of some of the highlights here. The post Highlights from Git 2.47 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Data for Good at Meta is open-sourcing the data used to train our AI-powered population maps.  We’re hoping that researchers and other organizations around the world will be able to leverage these tools to assist with a wide range of projects including those on climate adaptation, public health and disaster response. The dataset and code [...] Read More... The post How open source AI can improve population estimates, sustainable energy, and the delivery of climate change interventions appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Let’s take a closer look at some of the stars of the Open Source Zone at GitHub Universe 2024 🔎 The post Leading the way: 10 projects in the Open Source Zone at GitHub Universe 2024 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

At Meta, React and React Native are more than just tools; they are integral to our product development and innovation. With over five thousand people at Meta building products and experiences with React every month, these technologies are fundamental to our engineering culture and our ability to quickly build and ship high quality products. In [...] Read More... The post React at Meta Connect 2024 appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

At Cloudflare, we believe in the power of open source. With Project Alexandria, our expanded open source program, we’re helping open source projects have a sustainable and scalable future, providing them with the tools and protection needed to thrive.

Looking for ways to code in a more sustainable way? We’ve got you covered with our top list of tools to help lower your carbon footprint. The post The 10 best tools to green your software appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Open source software underpins all sectors of the economy, public services and even international organizations like the United Nations. How can all its beneficiaries work together to make the open source ecosystem more sustainable? The post Software as a public good appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

This episode of the Meta Tech Podcast is all about Bento, Meta’s internal distribution of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web-based computing platform. Bento allows our engineers to mix code, text, and multimedia in a single document and serves a wide range of use cases at Meta from prototyping to complex machine learning workflows. Pascal Hartig [...] Read More... The post Inside Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Pingora handles 35M+ requests per second, so saving a few microseconds per request can translate to thousands of dollars saved on computing costs. In this post, we share how we freed up over 500 CPU cores by optimizing one function and announce trie-hard, the open source crate that we created to do it.

How GitHub volunteers built an open source metrics dashboard for the World Health Organization and some best practices they picked up along the way. The post How to build an open source metrics dashboard appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn about new PyTorch advancements for LLMs and how PyTorch is enhancing every aspect of the LLM lifecycle. In this talk from AI Infra @ Scale 2024, software engineers Wanchao Liang and Evan Smothers are joined by Meta research scientist Kimish Patel to discuss our newest features and tools that enable large-scale training, memory efficient [...] Read More... The post How PyTorch powers AI training and inference appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Llama 3 is Meta’s most capable openly-available LLM to date and the recently-released Llama 3.1 will enable new workflows, such as synthetic data generation and model distillation with unmatched flexibility, control, and state-of-the-art capabilities that rival the best closed source models.  At AI Infra @ Scale 2024, Meta engineers discussed every step of how we [...] Read More... The post Bringing Llama 3 to life appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Discover how the Ersilia Open Source Initiative accelerates drug discovery by using GitHub Actions to disseminate AI/ML models. The post Automating open source: How Ersilia distributes AI models to advance global health equity appeared first on The GitHub Blog.