IBM, Red Hat Pledge $5 Billion for Project Lightwell to Fix Open-Source Vulnerabilities

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IBM and Red Hat pledged $5 billion to Project Lightwell, an AI-powered open-source security initiative that the companies say will deploy 20,000 engineers to identify and fix open source vulnerabilities at scale.

The companies are presenting Lightwell as a new model for open-source software in the AI era, combining AI support with a large engineering workforce. Red Hat described the program as a first-of-its-kind effort.

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IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new model for open-source software, dubbed Project Lightwell, and will deploy 20,000 engineers, supported by AI (@connorhart22 / Wall Street Journal) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full c

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IBM, Red Hat Pledge $5 Billion for AI-Driven Open Source Security Initiative

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Introducing Project Lightwell from @IBM and Red Hat: a $5 billion, AI-powered, 20,000 engineer-strong, first-of-its-kind force to identify and fix open source vulnerabilities at scale. Read about our commitment to the future of open source

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