Tag: open source
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Mistral Large 4: Europe’s 1T Open-Weight Model Enters Preview
On October 6, 2026, Mistral AI opened a public preview of Mistral Large 4 — a 1.05-trillion-parameter, natively multimodal model with 52 billion active parameters. Nicknamed “le Chonk” and unofficially ML4, it is the Paris-based lab’s largest model to date and, on Mistral’s own numbers, the strongest open-weight model developed outside China. The preview API […]
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Google’s EmbeddingGemma 2 Puts Multimodal Search on the Device
Lead — On October 6, 2026, Google DeepMind released EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740-million-parameter open model that maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a single shared 768-dimensional vector space. Built on the Gemma 4 architecture and shipped under the commercially permissive Apache 2.0 license, it is designed to run on phones and laptops rather […]
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DeepSeek Harness v0.2 Ships as a Desktop App for macOS and Windows
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness v0.2 on September 29, 2026, and with it the first official desktop installers for macOS (Apple silicon) and Windows. Seven weeks ago Harness debuted as a developer-preview agent runtime that you launched from a terminal with npx. It now installs like an ordinary desktop app: sign in, pick a local folder […]
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TeleOCR Parses Crumpled, Photographed Pages Without Dewarping
A research team at China Telecom’s AI subsidiary (TeleAI) has released TeleOCR, a 1.2-billion-parameter vision-language model that parses both clean digital documents and photographed ones — folded, curled, or crumpled — with no separate dewarping step. The weights first went up on Hugging Face on August 17, 2026 under the name NaviDC-OCR. The team renamed […]
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NVIDIA OpenShell Puts AI Agents in Kernel-Enforced Sandboxes
On September 28, 2026, NVIDIA launched the Open Agent Safety Platform, a two-part stack for containing autonomous AI agents. It pairs OpenShell, an Apache 2.0 open-source runtime that runs agents inside kernel-level sandboxes governed by declarative policy, with Sentry, a reference design that moves monitoring onto a separate BlueField-4 DPU. The design premise, in the […]
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US Companies Turn to Open Models as AI Bills Climb
US companies are starting to move some of their AI workloads off premium frontier models to cheaper ones, and some of that work is going to open-weight models. A Financial Times report published on September 27, 2026 names Tinder, PNC Financial Services, CH Robinson and Siemens among the businesses that have recently discussed using open-weight […]
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Black Forest Labs Releases FLUX 3 Action, an Open-Weight Robot Model
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action on September 23, 2026 — a 7-billion-parameter, open-weight “world action model” that takes camera frames, a robot’s current state and a text instruction, and returns the next chunk of motor commands together with predicted video of how the scene should unfold. It is the first open-weight release to […]
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Ant Group Open-Sources Ming-Image-0.1-Design for Text-Heavy Graphics
Ant Group’s inclusionAI lab has open-sourced Ming-Image-0.1-Design, a pair of 6-billion-parameter image models built for graphic design rather than photography: user interfaces, infographics, posters, and other layouts where the rendered text has to be legible. The weights went up on Hugging Face on September 17, 2026, under the MIT licence, and the lab’s Ant Ling […]
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Xiaomi Open-Sources MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash, Plus Its RL Stack
Xiaomi has released the weights of MiMo-V2.6-Pro and MiMo-V2.6-Flash under the MIT licence, one week after it began streaming their reinforcement learning (RL) runs on a public dashboard. The two checkpoints went up on Hugging Face on September 21, 2026 (UTC), and Xiaomi’s official announcement is dated September 22. Pro is a 1.02-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) […]
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Alibaba’s DAMO RADAR Beats Most Radiologists on CT Scans
Alibaba’s DAMO Academy has open-sourced RADAR, a vision-language AI model that reads abdominal CT scans and flags nearly 150 clinical findings — including cancers — in a single pass. Published in Science on September 18, 2026, the model averaged an AUC of 0.913 across 146 findings in real-world testing and outperformed 23 of 26 expert […]