Tag: open source
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LG AI Research Unveils EXAONE 4.5: A Vision-Language Model for the Physical AI Era
At Mobile World Congress 2026 in Barcelona, LG AI Research announced EXAONE 4.5 — the next generation of its open-weight AI model series. Unlike its predecessors, EXAONE 4.5 is a vision-language model (VLM) that can process both text and images simultaneously, marking LG’s biggest step yet into multimodal AI. The model is expected to launch […]
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TinyGPU Brings NVIDIA and AMD eGPUs to Apple Silicon Macs
On March 31, 2026, George Hotz’s Tiny Corp announced that Apple has officially approved the TinyGPU driver extension — making it possible for Apple Silicon Mac users to run external NVIDIA and AMD GPUs over Thunderbolt/USB4 without disabling System Integrity Protection. After more than a year of engineering custom userspace GPU drivers, the approval marks […]
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Google Releases Gemma 4: Frontier Open Models Under Apache 2.0
On April 2, 2026, Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 — its most capable open model family to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows. Available under a fully permissive Apache 2.0 license, Gemma 4 delivers frontier-class multimodal intelligence across four model sizes, from edge devices to high-performance workstations. Intermediate Key points On April 2, […]
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Arcee AI Releases Trinity-Large-Thinking: A 400B Open Reasoning Agent
Arcee AI released Trinity-Large-Thinking on April 1, 2026 — an open-source frontier reasoning model built for complex, long-horizon AI agents. Weighing in at 398 billion total parameters (with ~13B active per token), it is one of the largest open-source models ever released by a U.S. startup, and it puts a credible challenge to proprietary alternatives […]
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CoPaw-Flash-9B: Alibaba’s Agentic Fine-Tune of Qwen3.5-9B
On March 30, 2026, Alibaba’s AgentScope team formally released CoPaw v1.0.0 — a personal AI agent workstation built around CoPaw-Flash-9B, an agentic fine-tune of Qwen3.5-9B. The model and the broader CoPaw framework are fully open-sourced under the AgentScope organization on Hugging Face and GitHub, positioning CoPaw as a lightweight, locally-runnable alternative to cloud-only AI agent […]
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PrismML’s 1-Bit Bonsai LLMs: 8B Model in 1.15 GB
On March 31, 2026, PrismML emerged from stealth to announce 1-bit Bonsai — a family of open-weight language models the company calls the first commercially viable 1-bit LLMs. The 8B flagship fits in just 1.15 GB of memory, runs 8× faster than a standard FP16 8B model, and matches its benchmark performance. Backed by $16.25M […]
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Qwen3.5-Omni: Alibaba’s Omnimodal AI Speaks 36 Languages and Codes from Voice
On March 30, 2026, Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3.5-Omni — a natively omnimodal AI model that processes text, images, audio, and video while generating real-time speech output. Available in three sizes (Plus, Flash, and Light), the model claims 215 state-of-the-art benchmark results and introduces features like semantic interruption, voice cloning, and an emergent “Audio-Visual Vibe […]
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ZML: A Zig-Based Inference Engine Bringing LLMs to AMD GPUs
ZML, a Paris-based open-source project, is gaining traction as a production inference stack written almost entirely in Zig — bypassing the Python and PyTorch dependency chains that dominate AI infrastructure. With its v2 release on March 24, 2026, ZML now compiles large language models directly onto NVIDIA, AMD, Google TPU, and AWS Trainium hardware from […]
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Voxtral TTS: Mistral’s Open-Weight Text-to-Speech Model Rivals ElevenLabs
On March 26, 2026, Mistral AI released Voxtral TTS — a 4-billion-parameter open-weight text-to-speech model that the company says outperforms ElevenLabs Flash v2.5 in human preference tests while matching ElevenLabs v3 in lifelike interactions. Built on Ministral 3B, Voxtral TTS supports nine languages, clones voices from just three seconds of audio, and achieves 70ms latency […]
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Cohere Transcribe: 2B Open-Source ASR Model Takes #1 on Leaderboard
On March 26, 2026, Cohere released Cohere Transcribe — a 2-billion-parameter open-source automatic speech recognition (ASR) model that claims the #1 spot on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard. Licensed under Apache 2.0 and designed to run on consumer-grade GPUs, Transcribe marks Cohere’s first entry into voice AI and signals growing competition in the open-source […]