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Nemotron 3.5 Transcribes 40 Languages and Labels Speakers in 13
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open-weight speech model that combines transcription, speaker labels, translation and audio understanding in…
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AI in the open.
Open-source and open-weight AI, local models and the tools built around them. Licences differ: open weights do not always mean open source.
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Mistral Large 4 Open Weights Land on Hugging Face
Mistral has released open weights for Mistral Large 4, its Le Chonk model, which it prices at $0.70 per million input tokens through its API.
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Nanbeige4.3-33B Open-Model Agentic Lead at 30B Scale
Nanbeige has released the open-weight Nanbeige4.3-33B, claiming leading agentic coding and cowork scores among ~30B open models based on its own benchmark…
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MiniMax M3.1 Flash Ships Open Weights at a Quarter of M3's Price
MiniMax has released M3.1 Flash with open weights on Hugging Face and API pricing of $0.15 per million input tokens, a quarter of M3's list rate. MiniMax's own…
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Ornith-1.5-122B Released: MIT-Licensed Open Weights, Quantised Builds and Ollama Support
Ornith-1.5-122B is a new open-weight reasoning MoE model under the MIT license with a 262,144-token context. This article covers how to run it with vLLM,…
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China Proposes Export Controls on 23 AI Technologies
China's commerce and science ministries have published a draft adding 23 AI technologies to export controls, with interim registration now and open-source and…
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Ternary Bonsai 2 2B, 4B, 9B: Smallest Files Need PrismML Builds
PrismML's Ternary Bonsai 2 2B, 4B and 9B are out under Apache 2.0. The 0.43–2 GB sizes need PrismML's binaries; stock llama.cpp loads larger Q2_0 files.
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Mistral Large 4: API Access and Open-Weights Timeline
Mistral announces Large 4, a natively multimodal model with 1 trillion total parameters, API access today and open weights planned for October.
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Reflection AI Beam Model: 501B Parameters, 23B Active
Reflection AI has announced Beam, an open-weight model with 501 billion total parameters, 23 billion active parameters and a planned Apache 2.0 release.
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AI company news roundup: models, privacy and agents
A source-qualified roundup of reported changes involving Gemini, Kolibri-1, Claude, OpenAI, Mistral and Meta, including what remains unconfirmed.
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Aleph Alpha Kolibri 1: Open Weights and 1M Context
Aleph Alpha’s Kolibri 1 is an Apache 2.0 open-weight MoE model focused on German and English, with long-context support and tool calling.
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Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 Agent Arena Rankings: Pro vs Flash
Arena reports different strengths for Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash, with Pro ranking higher and Flash costing less per task.
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GLM-5.3 UNCENSORED EXL3 3.0bpw: What the Release Includes
A source-based explanation of the community-hosted GLM-5.3 UNCENSORED EXL3 quant, its model lineage, reported tests, TabbyAPI setup and tool-calling caveat.
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AI Product Updates Reported in the October 2 Daily Brief
A source-attributed roundup of reported updates involving Grok, Claude Code, Microsoft audio models, Perplexity, FLUX 3 Image, Cursor and OpenAI.
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DeepSeek Harness Download: What the Preview Supports
DeepSeek Harness is an open-source preview with desktop, web, plugin, automation, and developer features. Here are the stated ways to access it.
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GLM-5.3 Cybersecurity: Anthropic’s Test
Anthropic says GLM-5.3 can develop end-to-end exploits in controlled tests, while its open-weight release makes its safeguards easier to bypass or remove.
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Naive-N0.5-Flash: Inside NaiveAI’s 309B Open-Weight Model
Naive-N0.5-Flash is NaiveAI’s 309B open-weight MoE model for coding and AI R&D, with a native 1M-token context and the NaiveRT inference runtime.
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What the DeepSeek V5 Leak Actually Reports
An unverified X thread reports a possible DeepSeek V5 launch, rumored 2-trillion-parameter scale and Huawei Ascend training, but provides no official…