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.
Meta Launches Muse Code, an AI Agent for Working With Large Codebases
Meta has launched Muse Code, a specialized AI agent for developers that promises to handle complex tasks in large-scale software projects.
Zuckerberg's Manifesto: Meta Releases Open-Source AI Model Against AI Monopoly
On August 11, 2026, Meta released a new open AI model for developers, while Mark Zuckerberg published a manifesto on the threat of AI monopolization. *Meta has…
Zuckerberg Publishes 6,000-Word Essay on Superintelligence and Releases New Meta Model Muse Glimmer
Meta's CEO published a 6,000-word manifesto on personalized superintelligence and, the same day, released Muse Glimmer, an open model positioned as a rival to…
Meta Releases Open-Weight Muse Glimmer, Reversing Course After Betting on Closed Muse Spark 1
Mistral Is on the Rise: Big Tech's Turmoil Opens the Door for Open AI Models
Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max, the Most Powerful Language Model in the Qwen Series
Selectel Tests Mac mini M4 Pro as a Local LLM Server for OpenClaw
Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling-Small: Open 276B MoE Model Outperforms Its Teacher
Thinking Machines Lab has open-sourced the weights of Inkling-Small, a 276B-parameter multimodal MoE model. At a quarter of its teacher's size, it beats it on…
Benchmarks Lie: Why Businesses Are Moving to Open Weights and In-House Inference
Enterprises are losing faith in third-party APIs: regulators, data leaks and unreliable benchmarks are pushing companies toward open models and their own…
Google Speeds Up Chrome Patching to Twice a Week: AI Is Finding Bugs Faster Than Developers Can Fix Them
OpenAI vs. Anthropic: Why the AI Race Worries Researchers and Zuckerberg
Three Open Letters in Five Days: Microsoft, Anthropic and 1,324 Developers on Open-Weight Models
Chinese Models Sweep OpenRouter's Top 5: MiMo-V2.5 Leads With 10.5 Trillion Tokens
Google's SynthID Holds Up Against Tampering, but It Doesn't Solve AI Disinformation
Ars Technica's tests confirm Google's SynthID watermarks are technically robust, but labeling AI content won't stop disinformation without a single industry-wide…
Moonshot Is Using 20,000 Nvidia Chips From Alibaba to Train Its Kimi Model
Chinese AI startup Moonshot has leased a cluster of about 20,000 Nvidia chips from Alibaba to develop Kimi, despite US export restrictions on high-performance…