Today, the Healey-Driscoll Administration joined with IBM and Red Hat to announce the official opening of the application process for the inaugural startup cohort of The Open Accelerator, a strategic initiative designed in collaboration with the Massachusetts AI Hub. Unveiled at a kickoff event for the first-ever Boston Tech Week from a16z, The Open Accelerator delivers an immersive residency program for technical entrepreneurs to gain real-world market insights and enterprise-grade architectural guidance based on open source standards. “Massachusetts has always been at its best when we brin