Tag: open source AI
Alibaba puts a 7B image model into the open weights race
Qwen-Image-2.1 is small enough for a consumer GPU and handles transparent layers natively.
Tencent splits a voice agent into a brain and a cerebellum
Gander keeps a conversation alive in one model while a second model does the work.
Baseten’s Base Labs recruits Hugging Face and Goodfire for open model safety
Baseten has launched a safety infrastructure effort for open-weight models with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI.
Insilico opens its aging biology models and a 328-gene target list
Insilico Medicine has released an open longevity toolkit in Cell, pairing a benchmark with small models that beat…
IBM and NASA open a Moon model to hunt crater ice
The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model and its SomBench dataset are open, aimed at finding ice and mapping terrain…
DeepSeek shrinks its KV cache to fit million-token contexts
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash targets the memory bill behind long-running agents, cutting cache footprint to 890 bytes per token.
Cohere bets on translation with a 218B open-weight release
North Small Translate arrives with 218B parameters, aggressive per-task pricing and a licence that stops short of commercial…
Nvidia reaches for Hugging Face in a $12.9B takeover
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, though a signed agreement is not yet in…
NVIDIA’s open Alpamayo 2 Super brings frontier reasoning to robotaxis
NVIDIA's open Alpamayo 2 Super model brings frontier-scale driving reasoning to robotaxi developers under a permissive commercial license.
AMD opens Instella MoE model trained on its Instinct GPUs
AMD ships Instella-MoE-16B-A3B, an open mixture-of-experts model trained on Instinct GPUs with 2.8B active parameters.
Black Forest Labs debuts Flux 3 with video, audio, and robotic vision
The multimodal model generates images, 20-second video clips with sound, and even predicts physical actions from a single…
Jensen Huang’s debut X post rallies Nvidia and Microsoft for open AI models
The Nvidia CEO warned Washington not to repeat the open-source software restrictions of the 1980s in an open…