How to Use open-source in a Sentence

open-source

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There'll be tons of open-source AI that many other nations will build on, too.
    Axios, 18 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Perhaps to attract more users, Musk made Grok open-source earlier this month.
    Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Both watches are compatible with all Pebble apps and watch faces, thanks to that open-source OS.
    Emily Forlini, PCMAG, 19 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Meta’s unique open-source approach is built around the Llama family of models.
    Ari Levy, CNBC, 21 June 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • But there are questions about how Alibaba will make money off open-source AI models that are free.
    Arjun Kharpal, CNBC, 28 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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