Tag: open source AI

Deepgram buys Daily to keep Pipecat outside its own walls

The speech company is absorbing the maintainer of the most widely used open framework for stitching voice agents…

Justice Department questions Nvidia’s plan to buy Hugging Face

Antitrust staff are asking whether a $12.93B takeover would hand Nvidia control of the main distribution hub for…

Mistral opens Le Chonk weights and bets on cyber defense

Mistral has published the full weights for its trillion-parameter Large 4 model, arguing a downloadable frontier model is…

A subreddit bans AI projects and touches off a revolt

Moderators of r/opensource say generated code is incongruent with the community and want non-English speakers out too.

Agentic AI Foundation takes on four projects and reaches ten total

OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face and Alibaba each handed over a component of the agent stack.

Google frees the GPU engine sitting under its on-device AI runtime

ML Drift hides Metal, OpenCL, OpenGL ES and WebGPU behind one layer and already ships inside Chrome and…

Hugging Face teaches a chat model to read raw genetic code

Carbon-X adds DNA tokens to a 14B text model so researchers can paste a sequence and ask about…

Meta commits large model training to Google chips through a new backend

TorchTPU swaps a brittle bridge for a dispatcher hook, letting PyTorch models run on TPUs with one device…

Microsoft lets a thousand agents organize themselves on one job

The Agensh harness drops the central orchestrator and lets workers claim their own share of a coding task.

Ai2 opens a training stack built for trillion-parameter MoEs

The Allen Institute for AI released Olmo-core 3, an open mixture-of-experts training framework it says scales past a…

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.