Open source: AI news.

Linus Torvalds says Linux kernel is out of 'stabilization phase' and using 'much healthier model' for AI contributions

Yet machine-made patches ‘often get rewritten’

The Register AI + ML·1 Nov→

datasette-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 model used by LLM , which means you can

Simon Willison's Weblog·31 Oct→

AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS

Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland

The Register AI + ML·30 Oct→

[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.

Latent Space·30 Oct→

Leaking 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 reconstruction here , with passages linked to t

LessWrong·29 Oct→

Mistral 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 three weeks ago. With 1 trillion parameters

SiliconANGLE AI·29 Oct→

Mistral 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.

TechCrunch AI·29 Oct→

Le 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.

Mistral AI News·29 Oct→

LibreOffice's 'no AI' stance meets LLM-assisted code

Core developers avoid AI coding assistants, while community contributors face disclosure and review rules

The Register AI + ML·29 Oct→

Introducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple Platforms

Hugging Face Blog·29 Oct→

Chinese 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.

AI Business·28 Oct→

Nvidia'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 uses only a sixth of the active parameter

The Decoder·28 Oct→

Nvidia 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. Traditional transcription AI models follow a wo

SiliconANGLE AI·28 Oct→

Opera 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.

TechCrunch AI·27 Oct→

Euro open source specialist proposes LLM gateway to ease token bills

Aiven hopes to do for LLMs what it does for databases

The Register AI + ML·26 Oct→

Nvidia 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 errors in robot actions far more reliably t

The Decoder·25 Oct→

Agentic 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 Face Inc. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Th

SiliconANGLE AI·22 Oct→

Donating 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 Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation

Simon Willison's Weblog·22 Oct→

IBM 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 + ML·22 Oct→

AI 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

The Register AI + ML·21 Oct→

DeepSeek 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.

AI Business·21 Oct→

Announcing SimReady Central: An Open Library of Simulation-Ready 3D Assets for Robotics and AI Factories

Hugging Face Blog·21 Oct→

NVIDIA 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 industries The portfolio includes the n

NVIDIA Blog·21 Oct→

[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 Space·21 Oct→