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On 10 August 2023, HashiCorp changed Terraform from MPL 2.0 to Business Source License v1.1, which prohibits building competing products. For 95% of teams using Terraform internally, the practical impact is nil. Teams building SaaS products on top of Terraform need to review their situation or consider OpenTofu.
OpenTofu is the community fork of Terraform, born in 2023 after HashiCorp switched to the Business Source License. With full file compatibility and Linux Foundation governance, it is the legally safe alternative for organisations with strict open-source policies or for those building products on Terraform.
The Grafana stack combines three open source projects: Loki for logs, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics. All three keep data in object storage (S3/GCS) with a minimal index instead of indexing everything like Elasticsearch, which cuts cost sharply at high volume and lets you correlate metric, log, and trace from a single Grafana panel.
Meta released LLaMA 2 on July 18, 2023 with a royalty-free commercial licence, in three sizes (7B, 13B, 70B parameters). The 70B model matches or beats GPT-3.5 on standard benchmarks. For 99.9% of organisations the licence allows download, modification, and production use with full data privacy and no fine-tuning restrictions.
Stable Diffusion XL marks a leap in open-licence image generation quality. What changes versus SD 1.5/2.1, the hardware requirements, and when to pick SDXL over Midjourney or DALL-E 3 for your workflow.
Cerebras-GPT is a family of 7 open-source language models, ranging from 111 million to 13 billion parameters, trained by Cerebras Systems on its CS-2 processors with the standard GPT-3 architecture. Released on Hugging Face and GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license, they suit fine-tuning, research, and local inference, though they understand only English.
