Featherless.ai pulls in $20M to scale serverless hosting for open-source AI models

Featherless.ai Inc., a serverless inference platform startup that hosts open-source artificial intelligence models, today ...

Inside Pinterest's efforts to replace expensive AI with open-source models

Pinterest uses a multimodal generative AI strategy to lower computing costs. Their approach includes OpenAI's and Alibaba's ...
U.S. News & World Report

OpenAI Releases Open-Weight Reasoning Models Optimized for Running on Laptops

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -OpenAI said on Tuesday it has released two open-weight language models that excel in advanced reasoning and are optimized to run on laptops with performance levels similar to ...
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Open-source AI models close gap with proprietary rivals

Open-source large language models in 2026, including DeepSeek V4, Llama 4, Qwen 3.5, and Gemma 4, have reached benchmark scores close to top proprietary systems. Advances in architecture, licensing, ...
AOL

OpenAI's New Models Aren't Really Open: What to Know About Open-Weights AI

Despite the company's name, OpenAI hasn't dropped an open version of its AI models since GPT-2 in 2019. That changed on Tuesday, as CEO Sam Altman shared two new open-weights, reasoning AI models, ...

Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-source model: How to try it

Google's newest Gemma model is now both open-weight and open-source ...
AOL

OpenAI launches its first open model in years so it can stop being on the ‘wrong side of history’—while still keeping its most valuable IP under wraps

Despite what its name suggests, OpenAI hadn’t released an “open” model—one that includes access to the weights, or the numerical parameters often described as the model’s brains—since GPT-2 in 2020.

Google's Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI - even on phones

Google's Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI - even on phones ...
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Open-weight AI models challenge big three dominance in coding

A new wave of open-weight AI models from Chinese labs is rivaling or surpassing major proprietary systems like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini on key coding benchmarks. Releases such as Z.ai’s GLM-5.1 and ...
Yahoo

Open-source AI models vulnerable to criminal misuse, researchers warn

Jan 29 (Reuters) - Hackers and other criminals can easily commandeer computers operating open-source large language models outside the guardrails and constraints of the major artificial-intelligence ...
Forbes

The Top Open AI Models Are Chinese. Arcee AI Thinks That’s A Problem.

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek logo is seen on a phone in front of a flag of China on January 28, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. American investors are confronting ...
InfoQ

NVIDIA Releases Open Models, Datasets, and Tools across AI, Robotics, and Autonomous Driving

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