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.
Russians are building home supercomputers en masse to work with neural networks
In 2026, Russian users are buying powerful GPUs and NVMe drives in large numbers to run and train neural network models at home, without cloud services or foreign…
The dispute over chardet showed how AI is changing the rules of open source and code licensing
The chardet library case has become a stress test for open source: can AI be used to rewrite a project from scratch, change its license, and treat the result as new…
15 AI tools for studying in 2026: what really helps college and school students
A selection of 15 AI services by task: explaining topics, editing, solving problems, synthesizing sources, and study notes. Plus the main warning: AI makes…
DiffQuant optimizes the Sharpe ratio directly through a differentiable trading simulator
DeepSeek prepares V4 launch for late April 2026 and changes how its models operate
Linus Torvalds approved AI code rules for Linux: humans bear responsibility
OpenAI, Qwen and GigaChat: Why Choosing AI Models Is Getting Harder for Russian Business
Habr AI published the Rozitta Parser case study: how vibe coding eats up sleep and time
An architect with no development experience used DeepSeek, Claude and Gemini over six months to turn a Telegram parser into Rozitta Parser — and described how much…
Google, Tambo, and GenUI: three approaches to AI interfaces built on the fly
A breakdown of Generative UI shows when AI should not only respond with text, but also assemble an interface: from HTML generation to Google’s A2UI and prebuilt…
Microsoft showed how to run VibeVoice for ASR, realtime TTS, and speech-to-speech
Alibaba released the Happy Horse video generator — it took first place in global benchmarks
Oxford scientists: "warm" AI tuning increases the frequency of errors and sycophancy
Stanford HAI: China has nearly caught up with the US in AI and is already ahead in patents and robots
Nano Banana, Qwen, and ChatGPT compared on image generation quality
In a new comparison of image generators, four models, including Nano Banana, Qwen, and ChatGPT, were tested on the same prompts to see which handles real visual…
European Commission: Meta’s fee for rival AI access to WhatsApp is tantamount to a ban
The European Commission said Meta’s March move to offer paid access to WhatsApp for third-party AI did not resolve its concerns: the regulator views the pricing as…