Apache 2.0

Evidence (18)

• 4Simon Willison·10/6/2026model_release
  EmbeddingGemma 2 gets Apache 2.0 praise

  Simon Willison commented positively on EmbeddingGemma 2, highlighting its Apache 2.0 license. He argued that embedding models are especially better suited to open licensing because many applications store large numbers of embeddings and may need to re-embed data if a vendor discontinues a proprietary model.

• 7Hacker News·10/3/2026model_release
  Aleph Alpha’s Kolibri: How the Sovereign German LLM Works

  Kolibri is an open-weight mixture-of-experts language model from Aleph Alpha, built for German and English with 78.1 billion total parameters but only 3.46 billion active per token. The model was trained from scratch in Germany and Finland, released under Apache 2.0, and designed with sovereignty, compliance, and long-context use cases in mind.

• 8Cloudflare Blog·10/1/2026product_launch
  Cloudflare Basin becomes generally available

  Cloudflare has generally available its Cloudflare Basin data platform, an open, serverless analytics suite built on Apache Iceberg and R2 Object Storage. The platform includes Basin Pipelines, Basin Catalog, and Basin SQL for ingesting, managing, and querying analytical data across Cloudflare’s developer platform.

• 7The New Stack·9/28/2026security
  Nvidia Unveils Open Agent Safety Platform for AI Agent Sandboxing

  Nvidia announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, combining the OpenShell agent runtime with the Sentry watchdog running on BlueField-4 DPUs. The system is designed to enforce deterministic policy controls, isolate agents in kernel-enforced sandboxes, and cut off network access if behavior becomes unsafe.

• 4Hacker News·9/20/2026open_source
  Essay argues open source stays free unless licensing changes

  A Hacker News-posted essay argues that open source tends toward licenses that allow free commercial use, and that attempts to restrict or monetize software at the license level are usually outcompeted by forks. It cites examples including React, Elasticsearch, Terraform, and Redis to support the claim that more permissive forks often win broader adoption.

• 6Hacker News·9/19/2026open_source
  Open non-autoregressive decision models for structured tasks

  The post describes Laya, an open-source family of non-autoregressive decision models designed to make fast, calibrated structured predictions from text and other inputs. It positions the models as a System 1 alternative to large generative LLMs for tasks like routing, classification, and scoring, and claims support for more than 100 languages with Apache 2.0 weights.

• 7Hacker News·9/17/2026model_release
  PrismML launches Bonsai 2 27B with 9x smaller footprint

  PrismML released Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, a compressed multimodal model based on Qwen3.8 27B. The company says it retains 98.2% of full-precision benchmark performance while using ternary weights and a 5.9GB footprint, targeting local deployment for coding, vision, and agentic workloads.

• 7InfoQ·9/16/2026framework_update
  Lyft Migrations to Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator

  Lyft has migrated hundreds of production Flink jobs from its 2020 in-house Kubernetes operator to the Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator. The move enables last-state upgrades, in-place autoscaling, and resource autotuning across the streaming fleet.

• 4Hacker News·9/15/2026open_source
  Alternatives to MinIO for Local Single-Node S3

  The article reviews simpler replacements for MinIO in local, single-node S3-compatible setups used for demos and validation pipelines. It compares options against requirements such as Docker support, open licensing, ease of use, and active maintenance, with a focus on running DuckDB and Iceberg against local object storage.

• 7Hacker News·9/12/2026open_source
  Minitap Accuses Google of Copying Open Source Code in Artemis

  Minitap says Google’s Artemis project for automating mobile devices contains code, prompts, and examples copied from its open-source mobile-use repository without attribution. The post also says earlier author credits were removed in a later version, while the project still appears to include some of its own engineering work alongside the borrowed material.

• 8Hugging Face Blog·9/9/2026model_release
  IBM releases Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 with commercial-friendly license

  IBM has released Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2, a new time-series foundation model for zero-shot forecasting. The model adds probabilistic forecasting, missing-value imputation, and a larger pretraining corpus, and is dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and OpenMDW 1.0 for permissive commercial use.

• 8InfoQ·9/7/2026open_source
  Netflix Adopts Open-Source Flink Autoscaler for Large-Scale Streaming Jobs

  Netflix is moving toward the open-source Apache Flink Autoscaler to manage more than 30,000 streaming jobs across multiple AWS regions. The operator-level autoscaling approach helps address limitations in cluster-level scaling for complex, stateful pipelines and has already delivered significant cost savings for one team.

• 8The New Stack·9/3/2026model_release
  IFM releases K2 Horizon open model fleet

  IFM has released K2 Horizon, a connected fleet of six open models ranging from 0.9B to 375B parameters. The release includes weights, checkpoints, training code, configurations, logs, evaluation results, and data recipes under Apache 2.0, with the smaller models claiming state-of-the-art results in their size classes.

• 7Hugging Face Blog·9/2/2026product_launch
  IBM Time Series Models Arrive on Confluent for Real-Time Intelligence

  IBM and Confluent are bringing IBM time series foundation models to Confluent Cloud in Early Access, with Confluent Platform support planned next. The models are designed to run on streaming data for forecasting, anomaly detection, optimization, and related decision-making tasks directly where business data moves.

• 5Hacker News·9/1/2026product_launch
  Jujutsu creator Martin von Zweigbergk joins ERSC as CTO

  East River Source Control has appointed Martin von Zweigbergk, the creator of the Jujutsu version control system, as chief technology officer. He will lead engineering for the company’s next-generation version control platforms while remaining a core maintainer of Jujutsu, which continues as an open-source project under the Apache 2.0 license.

• 8The New Stack·8/31/2026model_release
  Google launches TimesFM-3 forecasting model under non-commercial terms

  Google released TimesFM-3, a 330-million-parameter time-series forecasting model trained on more than a trillion real and synthetic data points. The model supports multivariate forecasting and outperforms prior systems in Google’s benchmarks, but its pretrained weights are currently limited to non-commercial, non-production use.

• 6Hacker News·8/30/2026regulation
  California Passes Linux Exemption from Age-Verification Law

  California lawmakers unanimously approved an exemption that would keep Linux distributions distributed under permissive open-source licenses from the state's age-verification requirements. The change specifically covers software distributed under GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses, reducing compliance concerns for open-source Linux projects.

• 5The New Stack·8/27/2026product_launch
  Microduck open-source biped robot opens for pre-order

  Microduck is a 25 cm open-source biped robot that comes ready to use and is designed to be retrained with reinforcement learning. The company says pre-orders start at $399, with shipments planned before Christmas 2026 and the software stack, simulator, and training pipeline released publicly on GitHub.