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.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3: A 2.8-Trillion-Parameter Open-Weight Model Rattles Silicon Valley
Beijing startup Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, an open-weight model with 2.8 trillion parameters and native vision. By some estimates, it has narrowed the US…
T-Bank releases T-Search, an open-source agent for multi-step search in Russian
T-Bank has open-sourced T-Search, a retriever agent built on Qwen3.6 and trained on synthetic data. It doesn't write answers; it returns a ranked list of chunks for…
Cisco's Small Open-Source Models vs. GPT-5.5: Finding Vulnerabilities at a Fraction of the Cost
Cisco has released two small open-source AI models for cybersecurity. By the company's own tests, they find roughly 150 times more vulnerabilities per dollar than…
The US Wants to Contain Chinese AI, but Silicon Valley Keeps Using Kimi K3 and Other Models
4 Mac Studios in One Cluster: 1.5 TB of Memory for Trillion-Parameter LLMs
Cognition Brings Devin to the Genesis Mission: 17 U.S. Department of Energy Labs
Cloud.ru Open-Sources Guardrails Filter to Protect Data in LLM Requests
Trump's AI Czar Resigns Again: CAISI Director Post Becomes a Revolving Door
Another Trump "AI czar" has resigned: TechCrunch reports that no one has managed to hold the CAISI director post since David Sacks left.
US Threatens Sanctions on Chinese Open AI Models Over Alleged IP Theft
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington may sanction Chinese open-weight AI models over alleged intellectual property theft.
Hamidun News AI Agenda Index: First Half of 2026
Sber released GigaChat 3.5 Ultra to open source with 432 billion parameters
Sysdig Describes First Fully Autonomous Ransomware AI Agent Attack Without Human Involvement
CyberOK Tested Phone Scammer Tactics on Claude, GPT-5.5, Qwen, and DeepSeek
Vercel Open Source Program includes xmcp and five other projects in Spring 2026 cohort
Vercel selected six open-source projects for its Spring 2026 program — from ASCII video converter to MCP framework xmcp — with grants of $3,600 each.
Developer Optimized ML Library lancetnic for Training on 16 GB RAM
The author of open-source library lancetnic found reasons why training on 25 thousand text rows overwhelmed 16 GB of RAM.