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Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.

Corporate AI is a hot mess, but open-source alternatives can be open-ended chaos. We’ll test some of the best ways to get local AI tools under your control.Sponsored By:<ul><li><a href="http://tailscale.com/linuxunplugged">Tailscale</a>: <a href="http://tailscale.com/linuxunplugged">Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices!</a></li><li><a href="https://warp.dev/linux-terminal">Warp Terminal</a>: <a href="https://warp.dev/linux-terminal">Warp - the re-imagined terminal now available for Linux with multiple distributions available including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, and Arch Linux.</a></li><li><a href="https://determinate.systems/unplugged">FlakeHub.com</a>: <a href="https://determinate.systems/unplugged">FlakeHub.com is the all-in-one platform for secure, compliant, and transformative Nix development. Bring Nix to work the way you always wanted with FlakeHub.com. Register for the private beta and get a secure, compliance-friendly Nix and all the support you need.</a></li><li><a href="https://kolide.com/unplugged">Kolide</a>: <a href="https://kolide.com/unplugged">Kolide is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn’t trusted and secure, it can’t log into your cloud apps.</a></li></ul><a href="https://jupitersignal.memberful.com/checkout?plan=52946">Support LINUX Unplugged</a>Links:<ul><li><a href="https://strike.me/">💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike</a>
</li><li><a href="https://www.fountain.fm/show/dWiuBeqpDSM86AwXRXov">📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM</a>
</li><li><a href="https://discourse.nixos.org/t/announcing-first-nixcon-north-america/35874">First NixCon North America!</a>
</li><li><a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x">Southern California Linux Expo 21</a>
</li><li><a href="https://www.meetup.com/jupiterbroadcasting/events/298780542">🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM</a>
</li><li><a href="https://www.yardhouse.com/menu/starters/apps?setRestaurant=8307&amp;cmpid=br:yh_ag:ie_ch:dry_ca:YHGMB_sn:gmb_gt:pasadena-ca-8307_pl:menu_rd:1006">Yard House Menu</a>
</li><li><a href="http://fountain.fm/">Fountain.fm</a>
</li><li><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/google_suspends_gemini/">Google halts Gemini image generation to fix White balance</a> — Google has suspended availability of text-to-image capabilities in its recently released Gemini multimodal foundational AI model, after it failed to accurately represent White Europeans and Americans in specific historical contexts.
</li><li><a href="https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-3">Stable Diffusion 3</a> — The Stable Diffusion 3 suite of models currently ranges from 800M to 8B parameters. This approach aims to align with our core values and democratize access, providing users with a variety of options for scalability and quality to best meet their creative needs.
</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/debarghya_das/status/1760873374174302447">Deedy on X</a> — Stable Diffusion 3 launched today and may be the best image gen alternative to Gemini! (with examples)</li><li><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/23/ai-safety-washington-lobbying-00142783">AI doomsayers funded by billionaires ramp up lobbying</a>
</li><li><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/google-goes-open-ai-with-gemma-a-free-open-weights-chatbot-family/">Google goes “open AI” with Gemma, a free, open-weights chatbot family</a> — Developed by Google DeepMind and other Google AI teams, Gemma pulls from techniques learned during the development of Gemini, which is the family name for Google's most capable (public-facing) commercial LLMs, including the ones that power its Gemini AI assistant. Google says the name comes from the Latin gemma, which means "precious stone."
</li><li><a href="https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases/tag/v0.1.27">ollama release v0.1.27 adds Gemma</a>
</li><li><a href="https://github.com/google/gemma.cpp">gemma.cpp</a> — Lightweight, standalone C++ inference engine for Google's Gemma models.
</li><li><a href="https://invoke-ai.github.io/InvokeAI/">InvokeAI</a> — InvokeAI is an implementation of Stable Diffusion, the open source text-to-image and image-to-image generator. It provides a streamlined process with various new features and options to aid the image generation process. 
</li><li><a href="https://nixified.ai/">Nixified AI</a> — The goal of nixified.ai is to simplify and make available a large repository of AI executable code that would otherwise be impractical to run yourself, due to package management and complexity issues.
</li><li><a href="https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL">NixOS-WSL</a>
</li><li><a href="https://2024.texaslinuxfest.org/">Texas LinuxFest 2024</a>
</li><li><a href="https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/auslkes-lin-008655fc-a007-41c6-8d04-0d79e5b68ea6/">TXLF Hotel Group Rate Link</a>
</li><li><a href="https://linuxfestnorthwest.org/">LFNW2024 - Ready or not…</a> — April 26 - 28, 2024 • Bellingham Technical College
</li><li><a href="https://lfnw2024.sessionize.com/">LinuxFest Northwest 2024 Schedule Posted</a>
</li><li><a href="http://linuxunplugged.com/membership">LINUX Unplugged Membership</a>
</li><li><a href="https://github.com/ryantm/agenix">ryantm/agenix</a> — age-encrypted secrets for NixOS and Home manager
</li><li><a href="https://github.com/Mic92/sops-nix">Mic92/sops-nix</a> — Atomic secret provisioning for NixOS based on sops
</li><li><a href="https://huggingface.co/papers">Pick: Hugging Face Daily Papers</a>
</li></ul>

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