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.
Google restricts Meta's access to Gemini amid a compute capacity shortage
Google introduced Gemini quotas for enterprise clients: Meta requested more compute than the company could allocate, putting the social network's internal AI…
AWS open-sources Chaplin: self-service AWS Health analytics on Amazon Bedrock agents
Amazon has released open source Chaplin — an AI agent built on Amazon Bedrock and MCP for independently analyzing AWS Health events and infrastructure lifecycle…
Sovcombank warns: closure of Chinese AI models would hit Russia's industry
Russian companies risk facing rising costs and slower development if Chinese developers close off their AI models, warn analysts at Sovcombank.
Google restricts Meta's access to Gemini due to a shortage of computing capacity
LangSmith learns to compare fine-tuned open-source LLMs with automatic scoring
France abandons Palantir: intelligence shifts to domestic ChapsVision
Google Cloud adds specialized AI models from SandboxAQ for scientific research
Mistral releases Search Toolkit — an open framework for search pipelines
Mistral AI has opened a public preview of Search Toolkit — a unified open-source framework combining data ingestion, retrieval, and quality evaluation for AI…
Mistral AI introduced an industrial AI stack and the Vibe agent at the AI Now Summit
At the AI Now Summit, Mistral announced partnerships with Airbus, BMW and ASML, turned Vibe into a full-fledged work agent, and announced plans for its own data…
Claude Code built IndexedDB from scratch: 1208 Web Platform Tests passed, but agent's 95% figure disputed
Scikit-LLM: an end-to-end text sentiment analysis pipeline with language models
Chainguard launches Athena coalition: AI to patch open-source flaws before hackers do
DeepSeek closes the largest funding round in China — $7.4 billion at a valuation above $50 billion
Alibaba unveiled AI models for robots — China is betting on agents
Alibaba has released its first set of AI models for robots: the industry is shifting from chatbots to agentic systems capable of carrying out complex tasks in the…
Chrome, Edge and Firefox: AI Feature Test Reveals an Unexpected Winner
A ZDNET journalist tested Gemini in Chrome, Copilot in Edge and Firefox’s multibot — and chose Edge: Copilot analyzes all open tabs at once and ‘sees’ the screen…