Graviti leads community of developers and data scientists to create data standards and formats that enable contributions by anyone

Napa Valley, Calif., Linux Foundation Membership Summit, November 2, 2021 — The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the new Project OpenBytes spearheaded by Graviti. Project OpenBytes is dedicated to making open data more available and accessible through the creation of data standards and formats.

Edward Cui is the founder of Graviti and a former machine learning expert within Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group. “For a long time, scores of AI projects were held up by a general lack of high-quality data from real use cases,” Cui said. “Acquiring higher quality data is paramount if AI development is to progress. To accomplish that, an open data community built on collaboration and innovation is urgently needed. Graviti believes it’s our social responsibility to play our part.”

By creating an open data standard and format, Project OpenBytes can reduce data contributors’ liability risks. Dataset holders are often reluctant to share their datasets publicly due to their lack of knowledge on various data licenses. If data contributors understand their ownership of data is well protected and their data will not be misused, more open data becomes accessible.

Project OpenBytes will also create a standard format of data published, shared, and exchanged on its open platform. A unified format will help data contributors and consumers easily find the relevant data they need and make collaboration easier. These OpenBytes functions will make high-quality data more available and accessible, which is significantly valuable to the whole AI community and will save a large amount of monetary and labor resources on repetitive data collecting.

“Project OpenBytes and community will benefit all AI developers, both academic and professional and at both large and small enterprises, by enabling access to more high-quality open datasets and making AI deployment faster and easier,” said Mike Dolan, general manager and senior vice president of Projects at the Linux Foundation.

The largest tech companies have already realized the potential of open data and how it can lead to novel academic machine learning breakthroughs and generate significant business value. However, there isn’t a well-established open data community with neutral and transparent governance across various organizations in a collaborative effort. Under the governance of the Linux Foundation, OpenBytes aims to create data standards and formats, enable contributions of good-quality data and, more importantly, be governed in a collaborative and transparent way.

For more information, please visit ​​https://www.openbytes.io

Supporting Quotes

ElectrifAi

“As one of the earliest AI/ML companies in the U.S., ElectrifAi is happy to support the OpenBytes project. We believe OpenBytes will help in the sharing of trusted datasets and accelerate practical AI/ML to solve real business problems,” said Luming Wang, CTO, ElectrifAi.

Jina AI

“The future of software is being eaten by open source, as well as data-sharing. OpenByte’s announcement is a great signal for all developers on the accessibility of datasets. We are very excited to see standardized datasets available to a broader community, which will massively benefit AI engineers,” said Bing He, Co-founder & COO at Jina AI.

Motional

“Project OpenBytes will be essential to establish a vibrant open source dataset community. At Motional we are happy to contribute our freely available nuScenes and nuPlan datasets to this community. By standardizing datasets and licenses, we are making an important step towards interoperable machine learning systems and in particular safer autonomous vehicles,” said Holger Caesar, Data-Algorithms Team Lead at Motional.

Predibase

“At Predibase, we’re building the open source Ludwig AI project to make state-of-the-art deep learning accessible to everyone, but the biggest barrier to tackling more tasks has always been the lack of standards for training datasets over unstructured data like text and images. Project OpenBytes provides a common structure to unstructured data that makes it possible for low-code deep learning tools like Ludwig to automate a host of advanced computer vision, NLP, and other machine learning tasks that previously required bespoke solutions. I’m excited to see how the combination of OpenBytes and Ludwig can enable data scientists and ML engineers to spend less time figuring out how to stitch data and models together, and more time solving their business problems.”

Zilliz

“Data is crucial to the success of any Artificial Intelligence project. By sharing open datasets, Project OpenBytes will help more developers to understand, develop, and adopt AI/ML technologies. Project OpenBytes will be a fundamental component of the open-source AI ecosystem. At Zilliz, we are glad to participate and make contributions to this significant initiative,” said Jun Gu, Partner of Zilliz.

About the Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation is supported by more than 1,000 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation’s projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, and more.  The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

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More than 720,000 technical contributors and 1,700 member companies have access to security metrics on the LFX platform; tens of millions of developers rely on projects hosted across the platform

Napa Valley, Calif., Linux Foundation Membership Summit, November 2, 2021 — The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it has enhanced its free LFX Security offering so open source projects can secure their code and reduce non-inclusive language.

The LFX platform hosts community tools for security, fundraising, community growth, project health, mentorship and more. It supports projects and empowers open source teams to write better, more secure code, drive engagement and grow sustainable ecosystems.

The LFX Security module now includes automatic scanning for secrets-in-code and non-inclusive language, adding to its existing comprehensive automated vulnerability detection capabilities. Software security firm BluBracket has contributed this functionality to open source software projects under LFX as part of its mission of making software safer and more secure. This functionality builds on contributions from leader in developer security, Snyk, now making LFX the leading vulnerability detection platform for the open source community.

The need for a community-supported and freely available code scanning is clear, especially in light of recent attacks on core software projects and recent the White House Executive Order calling for improved software supply chain security. LFX is the first and only community tool designed to make software projects of all kinds more secure and inclusive.

LFX Security now includes:

Vulnerabilities Detection: Detect vulnerabilities in open source components and dependencies and provide fixes and recommendations to those vulnerabilities. LFX tracks how many known vulnerabilities have been found in open source Projects, identifies if those vulnerabilities have been fixed in code commits and then reports on the number of fixes per project through an intuitive dashboard. Fixing known open source vulnerabilities in open source projects helps cleanse software supply chains at their source and greatly enhances the quality and security of code further downstream in development pipelines. Snykhas provided this functionality for the community and helped open source software projects remediate nearly 12,000 known security vulnerabilities in their code.

Code Secrets: Detect secrets-in-code such as passwords, credentials, keys and access tokens both pre- and post-commit. These secrets are used by hackers to gain entry into repositories and other important code infrastructure. BluBracket is the leading provider of secrets detection technology in the industry and has contributed these features to the Linux Foundation LFX community.

Non-Inclusive Language: Detect non-inclusive language used in project code, which is a barrier in creating a welcoming and inclusive community. BluBracket worked with the Inclusive Naming Initiative on this functionality.

“The enhancement of LFX Security builds on its extensive functionality in vulnerability detection to add critical support for secrets-in-code and non-inclusive language,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. “It’s up to all of us to secure our software supply chain, and we are grateful to Snyk and BluBracket for their significant contributions to the open source community.”

“Securing our software supply chain has become the most critical task facing the software industry. We believe the Linux Foundation’s LFX security project is the absolute best way for critical software projects to secure their code. BluBracket is thrilled to provide key functionality to LFX Security, including offensive language detection and secrets scanning. These features are crucial for projects to be both safe and inclusive. We know that LFX Security will greatly enhance our software supply chain’s security, and we look forward to working with the community to keep code safe,” said Prakash Linga, Founder and CEO of BluBracket.

“With fortifying our global software supply chain more crucial than ever, we’re happy to contribute our developer security expertise and continue our support of the crucial work of the Linux Foundation,” said Jill Wilkins, Senior Director, Global Technical Alliances, Snyk. “By leveraging the LFX Community Platform, we’re proud to be part of an important effort that will help millions of developers worldwide to innovate securely.”

LFX Security will be further scaled out in 2022 to help solve challenges for hundreds of thousands of critical open source projects under the Open Source Security Foundation at Linux Foundation. LFX Security is free and available for use today at https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org/tools/security/

About BluBracket

By empowering developers to prevent security vulnerabilities early in the software development process and giving security professionals an automated and developer-friendly way to ensure code is secure, BluBracket is the first comprehensive solution for code security. More information can be found at www.blubracket.com

About Snyk

Snyk is the leader in developer security. We empower the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Our developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, leading to increased developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut and Salesforce.

Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021, the 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50 and was named a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AST.

About the Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 1,800 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation’s projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, Hyperledger, RISC-V and more.  The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

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More than 720,000 technical contributors and 1,700 member companies have access to security metrics on the LFX platform; tens of millions of developers rely on projects hosted across the platform

Napa Valley, Calif., Linux Foundation Membership Summit, November 2, 2021 — The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced it has enhanced its free LFX Security offering so open source projects can secure their code and reduce non-inclusive language.

The LFX platform hosts community tools for security, fundraising, community growth, project health, mentorship and more. It supports projects and empowers open source teams to write better, more secure code, drive engagement and grow sustainable ecosystems.

The LFX Security module now includes automatic scanning for secrets-in-code and non-inclusive language, adding to its existing comprehensive automated vulnerability detection capabilities. Software security firm BluBracket has contributed this functionality to open source software projects under LFX as part of its mission of making software safer and more secure. This functionality builds on contributions from leader in developer security, Snyk, now making LFX the leading vulnerability detection platform for the open source community.

The need for a community-supported and freely available code scanning is clear, especially in light of recent attacks on core software projects and recent the White House Executive Order calling for improved software supply chain security. LFX is the first and only community tool designed to make software projects of all kinds more secure and inclusive.

LFX Security now includes:

Vulnerabilities Detection: Detect vulnerabilities in open source components and dependencies and provide fixes and recommendations to those vulnerabilities. LFX tracks how many known vulnerabilities have been found in open source Projects, identifies if those vulnerabilities have been fixed in code commits and then reports on the number of fixes per project through an intuitive dashboard. Fixing known open source vulnerabilities in open source projects helps cleanse software supply chains at their source and greatly enhances the quality and security of code further downstream in development pipelines. Snykhas provided this functionality for the community and helped open source software projects remediate nearly 12,000 known security vulnerabilities in their code.

Code Secrets: Detect secrets-in-code such as passwords, credentials, keys and access tokens both pre- and post-commit. These secrets are used by hackers to gain entry into repositories and other important code infrastructure. BluBracket is the leading provider of secrets detection technology in the industry and has contributed these features to the Linux Foundation LFX community.

Non-Inclusive Language: Detect non-inclusive language used in project code, which is a barrier in creating a welcoming and inclusive community. BluBracket worked with the Inclusive Naming Initiative on this functionality.

“The enhancement of LFX Security builds on its extensive functionality in vulnerability detection to add critical support for secrets-in-code and non-inclusive language,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation. “It’s up to all of us to secure our software supply chain, and we are grateful to Snyk and BluBracket for their significant contributions to the open source community.”

“Securing our software supply chain has become the most critical task facing the software industry. We believe the Linux Foundation’s LFX security project is the absolute best way for critical software projects to secure their code. BluBracket is thrilled to provide key functionality to LFX Security, including offensive language detection and secrets scanning. These features are crucial for projects to be both safe and inclusive. We know that LFX Security will greatly enhance our software supply chain’s security, and we look forward to working with the community to keep code safe,” said Prakash Linga, Founder and CEO of BluBracket.

“Since fortifying our global software supply chain is more crucial than ever, we’re happy to contribute our developer security expertise and continue our support of the crucial work of the Linux Foundation,” said Jill Wilkins, Senior Director, Global Technical Alliances, Snyk. “By contributing to the LFX Community Platform, we’re proud to be part of an important effort that will help millions of developers worldwide to innovate securely.”

LFX Security will be further scaled out in 2022 to help solve challenges for hundreds of thousands of critical open source projects under the Open Source Security Foundation at Linux Foundation. LFX Security is free and available for use today at https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org/tools/security/

About BluBracket

By empowering developers to prevent security vulnerabilities early in the software development process and giving security professionals an automated and developer-friendly way to ensure code is secure, BluBracket is the first comprehensive solution for code security. More information can be found at www.blubracket.com

About Snyk

Snyk is the leader in developer security. We empower the world’s developers to build secure applications and equip security teams to meet the demands of the digital world. Our developer-first approach ensures organizations can secure all of the critical components of their applications from code to cloud, leading to increased developer productivity, revenue growth, customer satisfaction, cost savings and an overall improved security posture. Snyk’s Developer Security Platform automatically integrates with a developer’s workflow and is purpose-built for security teams to collaborate with their development teams. Snyk is used by 1,200 customers worldwide today, including industry leaders such as Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut and Salesforce.

Snyk is recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 2021, the 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50 and was named a Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for AST.

About the Linux Foundation

Founded in 2000, the Linux Foundation and its projects are supported by more than 1,800 members and is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, open standards, open data, and open hardware. Linux Foundation’s projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, Hyperledger, RISC-V and more.  The Linux Foundation’s methodology focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration. For more information, please visit us at linuxfoundation.org.

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The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation, please see its trademark usage page: www.linuxfoundation.org/trademark-usage. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.

Media Contacts

Jennifer Cloer

for the Linux Foundation

503-867-2304

jennifer@storychangesculture.com

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