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.
Anthropic Launches Free OSS Scanner to Hunt for Open Source Vulnerabilities
Anthropic has launched OSS Scanner — a free service for automatically finding vulnerabilities in open source projects. It uses Claude Mythos and other powerful…
SafeWorld Emerges From Stealth With $12.2M to Build a Safety-Testing Platform for Robots
SafeWorld has raised $12.2 million in seed funding to build a simulation platform for testing the safety of AI-powered robots. The Carnegie Mellon-born founders…
Epoch AI Releases Digest: AI Prices Plummet, Billions of Agents Coming
Epoch's October digest: AI costs fall 47% per quarter, chips through 2027 could support 2 billion agents, Chinese labs earn 10x less than OpenAI and Anthropic…
Dealroom CEO: Europe's first trillion-dollar startup may already exist
Shengshu releases Vidu Q4 Preview, aiming for a "DeepSeek moment" for video
GitHub Now Counts Draft Pull Requests Toward Open PR Limits
Wasserstein BaryBooster Turns Diffusion Realism into Event Forecasting Accuracy
A $6.3B Open-Weight Model Lost to the French: The Week of Mistral, Reflection and Moonshot
Fireship recapped a week in open-weight AI: Mistral, Reflection AI and Moonshot made notable moves, while a model with a $6.3B price tag ended up in an awkward spot.
PewDiePie Trains Uncensored Ajax Model at Home After Two OpenAI Bans
PewDiePie is building Ajax, an uncensored AI model trained at home. Fireship reports the trigger was two OpenAI bans for distillation.
Anthropic Refutes Pentagon Allegations of Potential AI Tool Sabotage During Wartime
Google, China, and the British AI institute: how models are learning to break down, hack, and jam
A way to sync sessions between a PC and laptop is now available for OpenAI Codex
How the Pentagon pulled Silicon Valley into AI warfare: the story of Project Maven
Feature Store from Scratch: Five Components for a Minimal Working Implementation
A detailed look at the five required components of a feature store, from ingestion to monitoring, and how AI is changing the classic architecture.
Alibaba releases Wan3.0 video model days after raising $10 billion for AI
Alibaba has launched Wan3.0, a new version of its video model that generates clips up to 30 seconds long. It arrived days after a record $10.2 billion share sale…