The open-source movement was driven by an anti-corporate spirit, rooted in collaboration and rejection of gatekeepers. In ...

Alibaba Group announced on Wednesday the launch of Qwen3-Coder, an open-source artificial intelligence model for software development that the Chinese e-commerce giant described as its most ...

Earlier this month, Armin Ronacher, a prominent open-source developer, was experimenting with a new code-generating tool from GitHub called Copilot when it began to produce a curiously familiar ...

Data journalists often run Python in “JupyterLab”, an open-source web application that creates documents that allow you to import data, run code and create visualisations.

JetBrains, the company behind a range of popular app development tools, has released its first "open" AI model for coding. On Wednesday, JetBrains made Mellum, a code-generating model the company ...

StarCoder 2, the follow-up to StarCoder, is a new family of code-generating models that runs highly efficiently.

ServiceNow and Hugging Face have launched StarCoder, a large language model enabling generative AI for code generation.

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Learning to code, being part of Open Data movements, and using Gen AI tools are all important for data journalists ...