Democratizing Marketing Mix Models (MMM) with Open Source and Gen AI

With US restrictions limiting its access to advanced tech, SenseTime is doubling down on open source with a new model optimized to run on Chinese-made chips.

While other open-source projects are rejecting vibe-coded contributions, Warp wants to accept AI code in a managed way.

On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. Notably, the model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design that helps it handle large amounts of text more efficiently. Like DeepSeek’s previous models, V4 is open source, meaning it is available…

Open source has never been just a licensing model. Rather, it’s also a philosophy about shared effort, shared transparency, and shared agency. The shared goal is to make an impact in the world. In the age of AI‑assisted development and agents, there is a line of thinking that AI slop, specifically mass-produced and submitted code, is the downfall of open source projects. On the contrary, I think open source is headed for a resurgence like we’ve never seen before, as long as we emphasize the aspects of open source beyond code submissions. In this new world, the philosophy, ethics, and morals of open source are more relevant than ever. However, the focus of open source needs to evolve past raw code: Specification files (spec files) and governance documents (constitutions) are becoming as important as the source itself. The challenge is not to choose between open source and AI, but to recognize that open source is now a community-based control and scope mechanism for open technologies. Le

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