How to Use open-source in a Sentence
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What’s more, all of this data will be open-source—available to the world.
—Jeffrey Kluger/greenbelt, TIME, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recipes for the fast-food staple have spread online like open-source code.
—The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2025
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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
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There'll be tons of open-source AI that many other nations will build on, too.
—Axios, 18 Jan. 2025
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The researchers plan to open-source this tool so that others can expand and improve on the work.
—Josh Hendrickson, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024
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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
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Well think about it from open-source perspectives, right?
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2023
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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
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OpenAI's browser is built atop Chromium, Google's own open-source browser code, two of the sources said.
—Kenrick Cai, USA Today, 11 July 2025
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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
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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
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One of the open-source 3D printers created by MakerBot.
—Erico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
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Meta has so far been firmly in the open-source camp, though not without difficulties.
—James Vincent, The Verge, 9 May 2023
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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
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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
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Signal is an open-source service that allows users to send instant messages as well as voice and video calls.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Perhaps to attract more users, Musk made Grok open-source earlier this month.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
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Both watches are compatible with all Pebble apps and watch faces, thanks to that open-source OS.
—Emily Forlini, PCMAG, 19 Mar. 2025
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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
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Meta’s unique open-source approach is built around the Llama family of models.
—Ari Levy, CNBC, 21 June 2025
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Licensors would have to watch all the uses of their open-source code, which is impractical.
—Frederik Hvilshøj, Fortune, 16 June 2023
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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
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This view is built on standardized telemetry from diverse open-source sources.
—Tom Wilkie, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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The movie stood out in 2024, having been rendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender and having no dialogue.
—Danielle Broadway, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
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But there are questions about how Alibaba will make money off open-source AI models that are free.
—Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2025
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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
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The hackers abused this by taking the open-source versions and adding malicious code into the programming.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 30 Aug. 2023
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Inside Berkeley’s open-source humanoid robot The robot stands about 39 inches tall and weighs just over 35 pounds.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
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Chrome is built on Chromium, an open-source software project with 35 million lines of code that are publicly accessible.
—Alissa Cooper, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
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In the last few weeks, several other Chinese companies have announced new, open-source AI models.
—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 28 July 2025
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