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159 articles filed under Open source, newest first, from the outlets listed on the sources page.
- The Register AI + MLopen-sourceLinus Torvalds says Linux kernel is out of 'stabilization phase' and using 'much healthier model' for AI contributions
Yet machine-made patches ‘often get rewritten’
- Simon Willison's Weblogopen-sourcedatasette-llm 0.1a9
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a9 I have some big upgrades to Datasette Agent in the pipeline, but in the meantime here's a tiny user experience improvement to the underlying datasette-llm plugin. It now picks up the default…
- The Register AI + MLopen-sourceAlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS
Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland
- Latent Spaceopen-source[AINews] Building AIE CODE: The top Coding Agent Conference
Mistral’s open-weight release, frontier monitoring, and the day’s AI Twitter and Reddit recaps.
- LessWrongopen-sourceLeaking Muse's Charter, Meta's model spec
TL;DR: Meta's open-weights model Muse Spark Open often mentions a "Charter" in its chain of thought. By eliciting it piece by piece, I reconstructed a large part of that document from the CoT. You can explore the reconst…
- SiliconANGLE AIopen-sourceMistral releases open weights for Mistral Large 4, providing sovereign control for the company’s ‘Le Chonk’ AI model
Mistral AI SAS today announced the availability of the open weights of its frontier model Mistral Large 4, nicknamed “Le Chonk,” the company’s most capable large language model to date, initially released in preview thre…
- TechCrunch AIopen-sourceMistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity
Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't.
- Mistral AI Newsopen-sourceLe Chonk: Built for Coders, Trusted by Defenders.
The weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) are now open. A 1T parameter multimodal model, and best open-weight model for coding, trained in Europe.
- The Register AI + MLopen-sourceLibreOffice's 'no AI' stance meets LLM-assisted code
Core developers avoid AI coding assistants, while community contributors face disclosure and review rules
- Hugging Face Blogopen-sourceIntroducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple Platforms
Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.
- AI Businessopen-sourceChinese AI invasion gives enterprises a new way to control cost
The open-weight models are, at least on the surface, considerably cheaper than their U.S. proprietary counterparts.
- The Decoderopen-sourceNvidia's open Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe combines transcription, translation, and speaker recognition
Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open speech recognition model that handles transcription, speaker recognition, and translation and takes its instructions as text prompts. It leads several benchmarks and u…
- SiliconANGLE AIopen-sourceNvidia releases all-in-one adaptable Nemotron 3.5 audio transcription and translation model
Nvidia Corp. today released a leaderboard-winning open artificial intelligence model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, along with an open data pipeline for fine-tuning Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe. Traditi…
- TechCrunch AIopen-sourceOpera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser
The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.
- Guardian Technologyopen-sourceiPhone Duo owners report cracks in Apple’s first foldable handset
Company says small number of devices affected by display glitch after posts appear on Reddit and social media Owners of the new foldable iPhone are reporting cracks in the device’s screen, as Apple confirmed an issue wit…
- The Register AI + MLopen-sourceEuro open source specialist proposes LLM gateway to ease token bills
Aiven hopes to do for LLMs what it does for databases
- The Decoderopen-sourceNvidia open-sources Flora to make robot video labeling 125x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra
Nvidia's new data engine Flora labels one hour of robot video for 72 cents instead of $88 with GPT-6 Astra, while scoring slightly higher on quality. The open system, built on three fine-tuned Qwen3.5 models, catches err…
- SiliconANGLE AIopen-sourceAgentic AI Foundation adds four more open-source AI tools
The Agentic AI Foundation, a consortium that maintains open-source artificial intelligence tools, today took four new projects under its wing. The technologies were donated by OpenAI Group PBC, Anthropic PBC, Hugging Fac…
- Simon Willison's Weblogopen-sourceDonating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation News today from Anthropic: We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foun…
- The Register AI + MLopen-sourceIBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem
90 percent of the performance at ten percent of the price, in just two or three racks, is hard to beat
- The Register AI + MLopen-sourceAI cuts coding time, but it's also filling open source's inbox with crap
Maintainers reckon a quarter of incoming pull requests are slop, rising to 31% on larger projects
- AI Businessopen-sourceDeepSeek makes DeepInfer open source to cut AI costs
With the move, the Chinese AI vendor is looking to gain an advantage in the open source market, while addressing enterprise concerns about steep token rates.
- Hugging Face Blogopen-sourceAnnouncing SimReady Central: An Open Library of Simulation-Ready 3D Assets for Robotics and AI Factories
Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.
- NVIDIA Blogopen-sourceNVIDIA Open Models Advance Europe’s Sovereign Intelligence Across Industries
NVIDIA is expanding its family of open models across language, robotics, biology, and quantum computing, giving developers, researchers and enterprises what they need to build applications tailored to local languages and…
- Latent Spaceopen-source[AINews] DeepSeek DeepInfer: Open Source SOTA Inference running 155T toks/day/cluster making $22m/day at ~80% margin for a 81 day payback
An open source “bomb” drops from China
- Latent Spaceopen-source[AINews] DeepSeek DeepInfer: Open Source SOTA Inference running 155T toks/day/cluster making $22m/day at ~80% margin for a 81 day payback
An open source “bomb” drops from China
- SiliconANGLE AIopen-sourceDeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its production services
Chinese artificial intelligence startup Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. today open-sourced DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its own production services. The release t…
- The Decoderopen-sourceDeepseek open-sources the inference engine that powers its fastest and cheapest AI model
Deepseek is open-sourcing DeepInfer, the inference framework behind its fast V4.1-Flash model. The vLLM-based system cuts compute costs and energy use when running AI models. The release adds more pricing pressure on Wes…
- SiliconANGLE AIopen-sourceIBM-backed llm-d framework adds controls for running AI models in-house
IBM Corp. and several other contributors to the open-source llm-d project are releasing version 1.0 of their distributed artificial intelligence inference framework, adding operational controls intended to help enterpris…
- Hugging Face Blogopen-sourceMPS in PyTorch 2.15
Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.
- Hugging Face Blogopen-sourceAnyLanguageModel 1.0: One Year of Local Models on Apple Platforms
Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.
- TechCrunch AIopen-sourceNvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs
Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.
- Hugging Face Blogopen-sourceTorchNeuron: running HF models on AWS Trainium is easier than ever
Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.
- Simon Willison's Weblogopen-sourcellm-tools-datasette 0.1.1
Release: llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 When I switched LLM over to httpx2 in LLM 0.33 I forget that this would break any plugins which used httpx without directly depending on it. llm-tools-datasette was one of those plugins…
- Simon Willison's Weblogopen-sourcellm-echo 0.5
Release: llm-echo 0.5 I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve an LLM at all - it just repeats back the p…
- Simon Willison's Weblogopen-sourceweb-edit 0.1a2
Release: web-edit 0.1a2 web-edit ( previously ) is my tiny web app for browsing and editing files in a folder. I mainly built it for editing files on different machines via Tailscale. I added a "copy to clipboard" option…
- The Register AI + MLopen-sourceOpen-weight models win hearts, minds, and wallets
They handle 71.5% of Vercel gateway tokens and nearly a quarter of estimated spending
- SiliconANGLE AIopen-sourceReflection AI open-sources Beam’s weights, post-training recipes
Startup Reflection AI Inc. today made the weights of Beam, its first large language model, available on Hugging Face. The company also released technical resources that will enable developers to customize the algorithm.…
- AI Businessopen-sourceOpen source and on device: the strategy behind Nvidia’s new AI models
The new Nemotron 3.5 models show how the AI giant is focusing on reinforcing its own GPU infrastructure while supporting the open source community.
- AWS Machine Learning Blogopen-sourceIntroducing Reflection Beam: an open-weight model for agentic coding on AWS
Reflection AI's Beam is an open-weight model for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks. This post shows how to deploy Beam on AWS: start with an Amazon SageMaker JumpStart real-time endpoint, or use Amazon SageMaker Hype…
- Hugging Face Blogopen-sourceScaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline
Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.
- Hugging Face Blogopen-sourceWelcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale
Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.
- SiliconANGLE AIopen-sourceMeta releases 816B-parameter Muse Spark Open for coding and agent work
Meta Platforms Inc. today released open weights for its Muse Spark artificial intelligence model, which had been proprietary since its April debut. The release, called Muse Spark Open, is built for coding and long-runnin…
- TechCrunch AIopen-sourceMeta launches an open-weight AI model that runs on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up for the launch of the social media giant's newest model, Muse Spark Open, which will run locally on Apple silicon.
- The Register AI + MLopen-source$24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust
Microsoft's Go rewrite gets some competition, with a developer claiming his port runs twice as fast
- The Decoderopen-sourceMuse Spark Open is Meta's answer to Qwen, GLM, and Kimi in the open-weight race
Meta's Muse Spark Open is a new open-weight model with 816 billion parameters that processes text, images, video, and audio with up to one million tokens of context. It performs roughly on par with the most capable open-…
- AWS Machine Learning Blogopen-sourceMeta’s Muse Spark Open now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart
Muse Spark Open, Meta's coding-optimized open-weight model, is now available in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Deploy it to a SageMaker AI endpoint in your own AWS account using SageMaker Studio or the SageMaker Python SDK,…
- The Decoderopen-sourceBlack Forest Labs' open-weights image model FLUX 3 Image Klein runs on consumer GPUs with just 8 GB of VRAM
Black Forest Labs has released FLUX 3 Image Klein, a 5.6-billion-parameter open-weights image model that supports native 4K generation, pixel-precise editing, and generation with up to ten reference images. With 38 perce…
- SiliconANGLE AIopen-sourceStartup nFox to open-source its ‘sandbox’ for open AI models
Artificial intelligence governance startup nFOX Lab today launched a platform for managing owned large language models and announced plans to open-source Blockhouse, a security sandbox designed to restrict what AI worklo…
- Hugging Face Blogopen-sourceApertus 1.5 Release Notes
Open-source model releases, tooling, and community updates.