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.
LlamaIndex released legal-kb: agentic document search through four tools on Index v2
LlamaIndex published the legal-kb reference application, giving agents file-like access to a knowledge base via retrieve, find, read, and grep on the Index v2…
DeepSeek introduces double tariff during peak hours — first in China's AI price war
DeepSeek announced double pricing during peak load hours for V4 model API clients — an unexpected move from the company that itself sparked the AI price war.
Mistral AI: the leading European challenger to OpenAI with open models
Mistral AI is a French company founded in 2023 that develops open language models and challenges OpenAI with the goal of making cutting-edge AI accessible to…
Together AI raised $800M in Series C to develop open-source AI
Anthropic Blocks Foreigners from Fable 5: Global AI Splits Into Sovereign Models
Meta wants to rent out AI computing power and challenge AWS and Google Cloud
Zuckerberg Admits: Meta's AI Agents Developing Slower Than Planned
UiPath posts first profit and rises 15% after betting on AI agents
Romanian automation company UiPath turned a profit for the first time and announced a shift to AI agents — its shares rose 15% in five days, recouping 2026 losses.
Palantir released a manifesto on AI sovereignty and attacked the token-based AI monetization model
Palantir published a nine-point manifesto urging organizations to retain their own data, control model weights, and abandon “tokenmaxxing.”
Zuckerberg admits to Meta employees: AI agents are developing more slowly than expected
Amazon Bedrock in AWS GovCloud supports NVIDIA Nemotron and OpenAI GPT OSS models
Together AI raised $800 million in Series C: Aramco and Nvidia valued the company at $8 billion
Mistral AI Releases Leanstral 1.5: Free AI Model Sets Formal Verification Records
OpenAI launched an initiative to find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source software
The company will help the open-source community identify and fix vulnerabilities in projects that underpin much of today's digital infrastructure.
LangSmith and LangChain OSS: how to comply with EU AI Act requirements by August 2026
LangChain explained how LangSmith and open-source tools address key requirements of the European AI regulation ahead of the August 2, 2026 deadline.