#053 - Cyber AI Chronicle - Navigating The Challenges of Open Source AI Adoption

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Cyber AI Chronicle

By Simon Ganiere · 26^th January 2025

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Project Overwatch is a cutting-edge newsletter at the intersection of cybersecurity, AI, technology, and resilience, designed to navigate the complexities of our rapidly evolving digital landscape. It delivers insightful analysis and actionable intelligence, empowering you to stay ahead in a world where staying informed is not just an option, but a necessity.

Table of Contents

• What I learned this week

  • TL;DR

• Navigating the Challenges of Open-Source AI Adopti …

  • Challenges in Deployment: The Complexity of Open-S …

  • The Complexity of Building Applications on Open-So …

  • Parallels with Open-Source Security Tools

  • Strategies for Simplified Adoption

  • The Future of Open-Source AI

• Worth a full read

  • Understanding Cyber Effects in Modern Warfare

    • Key Takeaway

  • The multifaceted challenge of powering AI

    • Key Takeaway

• Wisdom of the week

• Contact

What I learned this week

TL;DR

• Open-source AI models like DeepSeek-V3 and Sky-T1 are transforming the AI landscape with their cost-efficiency and groundbreaking performance. However, much like the journey of open-source security tools, their adoption brings challenges such as infrastructure demands, customization complexities, and security risks. In this two-part series, we explore the promise and hurdles of open-source AI, drawing lessons from cybersecurity to uncover strategies for maximizing their potential in real-world applications. » READ MORE

• The World Economic Forum (WEF) was in full swing at Davos this week. A lot of conferences and very interesting publications. Would highly recommend to take the time to read the Global Security Outlook 2025, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity: Balancing Risks and Reward and also to have a look at the various videos of the different conferences.

• I mentioned the topic of ransomware evolving based on AI in my start of the year predictions…and we didn’t have to wait too much: A threat actor named FunkSec seems to be leveraging AI to develop ransomware tools, an AI chatbot to support their malicious activities and leveraging AI to perform reconnaissance and targeting activities, last but not least some AI personalized phishing emails.

• An absolutely insane week in AI! If anyone had a doubt that agent is THE theme of 2025 in AI 😃 

  • OpenAI Agent with the release of Operator!

  • OpenAI updated canvas and it can now render React and HTML.

  • Stargate project, a $500 billion investment to build AI infrastructure.

  • Anthropic release a new API to provide detailed citations when answering questions about documents.

  • DeepSeek has released R1 which is reasoning model that is on par with OpenAI o1! You can find distilled version (1.5B, 7B, 14B, 32B) and its under MIT open source license.

  • Introduction of Perplexity Assistant, which use reasoning, search and apps to help with daily tasks ranging from simple questions to multi-app actions.