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Open-source and enterprise AI sector developments

Overview

The artificial intelligence sector is seeing increased activity in open-source development and enterprise-focused evaluation and training.

Initial developments included Vals AI securing $40 million in Series A funding to create the Vals Index, a benchmark designed to assess large language models on real-world utility such as legal research and financial analysis. Simultaneously, the OpenWALDO project was launched to establish a shared, open-source training dataset to improve transparency and address concerns regarding the use of unconsented or copyrighted data.

As competition in the open-weight model space intensified, the startup Applied Compute, founded by former OpenAI researchers, began seeking $350 million in funding to provide custom open-source models and cloud hosting for enterprise clients. In the same period, DeepSeek released ‘DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp’, an experimental multimodal model under an MIT license, which demonstrated high performance in specific image agent benchmarks.

Entities

DeepSeek · OpenAI · OpenWALDO · CIQ · Gregory Kurtzer

Timeline

  1. 12 days ago

    [TECHNOLOGY] 2 sources
    Applied Compute seeks $350M funding as open-source AI competition intensifies

    Former OpenAI researchers have founded Applied Compute to provide custom open-source AI for enterprises, while DeepSeek releases a new multimodal open-weight model capable of competing with Claude Opus 4.8.

  2. about 1 month ago

    [TECHNOLOGY] 2 sources
    AI sector sees new developments in model evaluation and open-source data

    Vals AI raises $40M to build real-world AI performance benchmarks, while the OpenWALDO project launches to create transparent, open-source AI training datasets.

Sources

forbesliberia.com · pc.watch.impress.co.jp