How to Use open-source in a Sentence

open-source

adjective
  • Pretty much the whole film was made in the software called Blender, which is a free, open-source software.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The researchers plan to open-source this tool so that others can expand and improve on the work.
    Josh Hendrickson, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024
  • And, in some cases, his hope was to create open-source tools for others to mess around with.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Well think about it from open-source perspectives, right?
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
  • This free, open-source app has given people access to the output of their GeForce cards from all kinds of screens since 2018.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2023
  • This novel state would emerge as an open-source project, its Founding Fathers hashing out the details on the web.
    Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 19 June 2023
  • But in the world of open-source software, some still see the company’s openness with an asterisk.
    Emilia David, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2023
  • One of the open-source 3D printers created by MakerBot.
    Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Meta has so far been firmly in the open-source camp, though not without difficulties.
    James Vincent, The Verge, 9 May 2023
  • To make his newest work, Szucs used open-source satellite imagery to find rivers and analyze their flows.
    Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Adim embraces the open-source ethos found in the tech sector to spark a different approach to content creation.
    Jack Dunn, Variety, 9 July 2024
  • Perhaps to attract more users, Musk made Grok open-source earlier this month.
    Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Likewise, Coinbase was wise to launch Base as an open-source project, which will attract developers and build trust in the project.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Licensors would have to watch all the uses of their open-source code, which is impractical.
    Frederik Hvilshøj, Fortune, 16 June 2023
  • The outage broke the thousands of websites that use the open-source CDN, leaving developers scrambling for a fix.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2024
  • This view is built on standardized telemetry from diverse open-source sources.
    Tom Wilkie, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • According to Musk, it was designed to be an open-source nonprofit, which was the very reason why it was dubbed OpenAI.
    Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The hackers abused this by taking the open-source versions and adding malicious code into the programming.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But any serious effort to govern advanced A.I. is going to have to figure out what to do about open-source.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 9 May 2023
  • Meta’s Threads has also started testing the open-source protocol, which has long been key to platforms like Mastodon and Lemmy.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Linux ultimately achieved more than just the first example of an open-source OS.
    Jessica Billingsley, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
  • But because the tools are open-source, other scientists can use them to discover more about whale language.
    Melissa Hobson, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The team used those photos and open-source image classifier files from Google to train the model and the custom camera system to sense and record trains passing.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Pérez said his lab will release the models and research behind the assistant as open-source technology, where the code is shared freely.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 4 July 2024
  • In the opening days of the counteroffensive, some of that military equipment appears to have been destroyed in Ukraine, open-source images seem to show.
    Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 13 June 2023
  • In the months after that, interest in my open-source project exploded, and the radio was adopted by FM DXers worldwide.
    IEEE Spectrum, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Alibaba — Shares rose more than 4% after the Chinese e-commerce company launched more than 100 open-source AI models and a text-to-video tool.
    Pia Singh, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The drone possesses two open-source PX4 autopilot systems: one for the air, and the other for navigating both land and water.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2023
  • Godot, a free and open-source game engine, leans in that direction with powerful, no-cost 2D and 3D development tools.
    PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Anyone can add a public fountain to the open-source map, and businesses like shops or cafes that offer free refills to the public can also apply to be listed.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2024

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