One of the brilliant ideas that helped DeepSeek go viral was the Chinese company's decision to make it open-source. That meant anyone could install DeepSeek AI on their computer for free without ...

The biggest reason to consider switching from Adobe After Effects to Friction is the price. AE costs a lot of money — it's part of the Creative Cloud (CC) subscription model — and Friction costs ...

At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft open sourced a number of apps and tools, including a new command-line text editor for Windows called Edit. Open source software may not earn the company direct ...

After seizing the summer with a blitz of powerful, freely available new open source language and coding focused AI models that matched or in some cases bested closed ...

The popularity of open-source software continues to grow because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack of ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...