Tag: open source
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MiniMax Releases H3: 2K Video With Native Audio, Open Weights Promised
MiniMax released H3 on July 30, 2026 — a general-purpose multimodal video model that generates clips of up to 15 seconds at native 2K resolution with synchronized stereo audio, and takes text, images, video, and audio as reference inputs in a single request. The Shanghai company says it will publish H3’s weights “within days,” which […]
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MCP Apps: Interactive UIs Become an Official Part of MCP
MCP Apps — the extension that lets Model Context Protocol servers ship interactive HTML interfaces straight into an AI chat window — is now a formally governed part of the protocol. First proposed on November 21, 2025 as SEP-1865, shipped as the first official MCP extension on January 26, 2026, and folded into the extensions […]
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SK Telecom Opens A.X K2: 688B Parameters and One Telling Benchmark
SK Telecom released A.X K2 on July 29, 2026 — a 688-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0, and the largest model yet to come out of Korea’s government-backed sovereign AI program. The headline numbers are strong: 97.1 on AIME26, 80.5 on KMMLU-Pro, and a wall of perfect 100s on needle-in-a-haystack retrieval […]
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NInfer: 700 tok/s on One RTX 5090, With a Rare Honest Audit
NInfer is a from-scratch C++/CUDA inference engine that runs exactly two model checkpoints on exactly one GPU. Published under Apache 2.0 and first committed on June 26, 2026, the project by developer Neroued supports only Qwen3.6-27B and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, only on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, and only one request at a time. In return for […]
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Kimi K3 Open Weights Ship: 2.8T Parameters, 1.4 TB to Run
Moonshot AI released the full Kimi K3 weights on July 27, 2026, hitting the date it promised when the model debuted eleven days earlier. K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with a 1-million-token context window and native vision — the first open 3T-class model ever published. The download is 1.56 TB across 118 files, and […]
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Jensen Huang’s First X Post: 150+ Companies Sign Open-Weights Letter, Anthropic Doesn’t
On July 24, 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made his first-ever post on X — and used it to publish an industry coalition letter titled “Open Weights and American AI Leadership.” The three-page statement, hosted on NVIDIA’s own servers and mirrored on Microsoft’s corporate site, asks Washington not to restrict downloadable model weights. It launched […]
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DeepSeek Founder Details AGI-First, Compute-Bound Strategy in Investor Meeting
A lightly edited transcript of a nearly four-hour investor meeting with DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, published by Tencent Tech in late July 2026, offers the clearest look yet at the reasoning behind China’s most closely watched AI lab. Across 118 numbered remarks, Liang lays out an AGI-first strategy, frames compute as the single variable separating […]
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Language Model Builder: Train a Small LLM From Scratch on Your Mac
On July 21, 2026, developer Felix Rieseberg released Language Model Builder — a free native macOS app that walks you through building a small language model from scratch on your own hardware. It pairs an interactive textbook on tokenization, embeddings, attention, and transformers with a real training pipeline: pre-training, supervised fine-tuning, and direct preference optimization, […]
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Poolside Releases Laguna S 2.1, a 118B Open-Weight Coding Model
On July 21, 2026, San Francisco-based Poolside released Laguna S 2.1 — a 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model built for agentic coding that activates only 8 billion parameters per token. It tops the SWE-Bench Multilingual table at 78.5%, holds its own against models ten to twenty times its size on long-horizon coding benchmarks, and fits on a […]
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Qwen-Image-3.0: 4.5k-Token Prompts, No Benchmarks, No Weights
Alibaba’s Qwen team launched Qwen-Image-3.0 on July 21, 2026 — the third generation of its image-generation model, built around a single claim: that generated images can now be useful, not just good-looking. The headline capability is a jump to 4.5k-token prompts, roughly 4.5× the instruction length its predecessors accepted, which the team says lets the […]