Tag: open-source
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OpenBMB Releases MiniCPM5-2B, Topping Open Models Under 4B
OpenBMB released MiniCPM5-2B on September 7, 2026 — a 2.5-billion-parameter dense language model, open-weight under Apache 2.0, that the team reports as the strongest open model under 4B parameters. Across 34 benchmarks spanning code, math, instruction following, long context, tool use and agentic tasks, MiniCPM5-2B averages 53.9, ahead of every 2B-class baseline in OpenBMB’s comparison […]
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Krea 2: A From-Scratch Foundation Image Model With Style Control
Krea released Krea 2 on May 12, 2026 — its first foundation image model built completely from scratch, focused on aesthetics, style control, and creative direction. Built on a 12-billion-parameter Diffusion Transformer, Krea 2 ships as a family of variants (Medium, Large, and a 2-second Turbo) with two checkpoints — Raw and Turbo — released […]
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MiniCPM-V 4.6: A 1.3B Multimodal Model Built for Phones
OpenBMB released MiniCPM-V 4.6 on May 11, 2026 — the smallest entry in the MiniCPM-V family to date. At just 1.3B parameters, the new multimodal model handles single-image, multi-image, and video understanding while running on consumer phones across iOS, Android, and HarmonyOS. The model is open-weight under Apache 2.0 and ships with vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, […]
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Tencent Open-Sources HY-World 2.0: A Multi-Modal 3D World Model
On April 15, 2026, Tencent open-sourced HY-World 2.0, a multi-modal world model framework that can reconstruct, generate, and simulate 3D worlds from text, images, or video. Unlike video-based world models that produce flat, non-editable pixel sequences, HY-World 2.0 outputs real 3D assets — meshes, Gaussian splattings, and point clouds — that can be directly imported […]
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Foundation-1: A Producer-Focused AI Model for Structured Music Sample Generation
RoyalCities has released Foundation-1, a specialized text-to-sample AI model built on Stability AI’s Stable Audio Open architecture. Unlike general-purpose music generators that output full songs, Foundation-1 is designed for actual music production workflows — generating tempo-synced, key-aware, bar-structured audio loops with fine-grained control over instrumentation, timbre, effects, and musical phrasing. Intermediate Key points RoyalCities released […]
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Shenzhen Longgang Backs OpenClaw with Millions in Subsidies for One-Person AI Companies
Key points On March 7, 2026, Shenzhen’s Longgang District Artificial Intelligence (Robotics) Bureau released a draft policy to support OpenClaw and one-person company development. The ten-point plan targets individual developers and micro-enterprises building on OpenClaw, with subsidies totaling millions of yuan, and was open for public comment through April 6. OpenClaw is a free, open-source […]
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LTX-2.3: Sharper Video, Native Portrait, and Cleaner Audio in Lightricks’ Latest Open-Source Model
Key points Lightricks released LTX-2.3 on March 5, 2026 under an Apache 2.0 license as a refinement of the 22-billion-parameter LTX-2 Diffusion Transformer that generates synchronized video and audio from a single architecture. The update focuses on four areas: a rebuilt VAE for sharper detail, an upgraded gated-attention text connector for prompt adherence, native portrait […]
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ACE-Step 1.5: Open-Source Music Generation That Rivals Commercial AI
Key points ACE-Step 1.5, released on January 28, 2026, is an open-source music generation model jointly developed by ACE Studio and StepFun. It generates a full song in under 2 seconds on an A100 GPU or under 10 seconds on an RTX 3090 while requiring less than 4GB of VRAM. The model uses a two-stage […]
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Z-Image: Alibaba’s Efficient 6B Open-Source Image Generation Model
Key points Alibaba’s Tongyi MAI team released Z-Image, a family of 6-billion-parameter image generation models that it says matches closed-source models with 20B+ parameters at a fraction of the compute cost. Released in November 2025, Z-Image-Turbo ranked 1st among open-source models on the Artificial Analysis Text-to-Image Leaderboard. Z-Image is a suite of variants rather than […]
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GLM-5: Zhipu AI Ships a 744B Open-Weight Frontier Model
Key points On February 11, 2026, Zhipu AI released GLM-5 through its Z.ai platform with 744 billion total parameters and a Mixture-of-Experts architecture. GLM-5 has 744B total parameters with 40B active per token, spanning 80 layers and 256 experts of which 8 are active at inference, a sparsity rate of about 5.9%. GLM-5 scored 50 […]