Open-Source AI
Open models — Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen and others — are catching up to closed labs and let you run AI on your own hardware, vendor-free. That shifts the balance of power, the safety debate and the economics of the field. Here is everything on open-source AI: open-weight releases, licenses, local deployment and the race against closed models.
Nscale Buys Anyscale for $1.65 Billion, Taking Control of the Ray Framework
London-based AI cloud company Nscale has acquired Anyscale, the creator of the Ray framework, for roughly $1.65 billion, closing its stack from its own data centers…
Meta DINOv3 and SAM: University of Pittsburgh Builds $41.5M RAMMP Assistive Robot
Meta says its DINOv3, SAM and RF-DETR vision models serve as the "eyes" of RAMMP, a University of Pittsburgh robot platform funded by an ARPA-H grant of up to…
Meta open-sources SAM 3 and DINOv3 for Genesis Mission: scientific image analysis in 15 minutes
Meta has released open-source SAM 3 and DINOv3 models for the US Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, cutting image analysis from months to 15 minutes. *Meta…
Fireworks Nexus: Routing Code Tasks to Open-Weight Models and Cutting AI Costs 3–5x
Xiaohongshu's UltraEP Balances MoE Experts in 300 µs, Reaching 94.3% of Ideal
VAST at SIGGRAPH 2026: Chinese 3D Startup Gives Keynote Alongside NVIDIA and Disney
Nvidia and Microsoft Launch Open Secure AI Alliance — Without OpenAI, Google or Anthropic
Moonshot's Kimi K3: Why China Is Giving Away Its Best AI Models for Free
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a Chinese model that reportedly beats top US systems at a fraction of the cost, and it is opening the weights for free with US…
Meta AI Comes to Threads DMs: The Chatbot Is Now Available in Private Messages
Meta has built its Meta AI assistant into Threads direct messages, so users can now chat with the bot right in their DMs, just as they would with another person.
Fish Audio Raises $52M Seed Round for AI Voice Models Aimed at Creators and Businesses
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Employees Urge US Government to Step In on the AI Race
Zuckerberg: Meta's Enterprise AI Opportunity Extends Beyond Agents
DeepSeek Pauses 480 Billion Yuan Funding Round After Founder's Remarks Leak
Nvidia and Mistral Urge US Not to Impose Broad Restrictions on Open-Weight Models
Nvidia, Mistral and other AI companies urged US officials not to ban open-weight models as a whole class, as Washington debates how to respond to Chinese AI.
Silicon Valley Splits Over Chinese AI: Big Startups vs. Small Ones
Multibillion-dollar AI startups in Silicon Valley are sounding the alarm over Chinese AI, while smaller companies see open Chinese models as an opportunity, not a…