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.
Bluesky launches Attie: AI helps create personalized feeds without code
Bluesky released Attie — an AI-powered application that lets any user create personalized feeds via AT Protocol by simply describing their interests.
Mistral AI secures $830 million in debt to build a data center near Paris
The French AI startup is taking on $830 million in debt to build its own data center — the facility is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2026.
LiteLLM cuts ties with controversial startup Delve after malware attack
Popular AI gateway LiteLLM has dropped certification partner Delve after falling victim to credential theft.
Meta suspended work with Mercor after leak of data on AI model training
Arcee — a 26-person startup — created a powerful open source LLM and is gaining users
Meta Superintelligence Labs released the first AI model Muse Spark for WhatsApp and Instagram
Databricks Co-founder Matei Zaharia Won ACM's Top Award and Said AGI Has Already Arrived
Astropad launches Workbench — AI agent control panel for Mac Mini
Astropad reimagined the remote desktop: the new Workbench is built not for IT support, but for monitoring and managing AI agents from iPhone or iPad.
Parasail raises $32M: betting on developers who want more AI tokens
Parasail closed a Series A at $32M, betting that the future of AI infrastructure will be fragmented across multiple models and compute providers.
Factory raises $150M from Khosla Ventures, reaches $1.5B valuation
John Ternus will replace Tim Cook at Apple — and immediately confront its AI failure
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 mini and nano — compact models for agentic tasks and coding
ChatGPT launches visual shopping powered by Agentic Commerce Protocol
Russian AI Agent Soyuz Goes Open Source: Security Comes First
The developers of Soyuz, a desktop AI agent, have put predictability ahead of feature bloat. The project's source code is now fully open to the community.
Gemma 4: Google Unveils Its Most Efficient Open AI Models
Google has announced Gemma 4, a new generation of open models optimized for complex reasoning and building autonomous AI agents.