Open-Source AI
Open models — Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen and others — are catching up to closed labs and let you run AI on your own hardware, vendor-free. That shifts the balance of power, the safety debate and the economics of the field. Here is everything on open-source AI: open-weight releases, licenses, local deployment and the race against closed models.
Together AI raised $800M in Series C to develop open-source AI
Together AI closed its Series C round at $800M with participation from NVIDIA, Aramco Ventures, and Vista Equity — the platform is betting on open-source models…
Anthropic Blocks Foreigners from Fable 5: Global AI Splits Into Sovereign Models
On June 12, 2026, Anthropic unexpectedly revoked access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign users — an incident that accelerated the race for sovereign AI…
Meta wants to rent out AI computing power and challenge AWS and Google Cloud
Meta is considering selling spare AI computing power to companies — which would directly pit it against Amazon, Google and Microsoft in the cloud computing market.
Together AI raised $800 million in Series C: Aramco and Nvidia valued the company at $8 billion
Mistral AI Releases Leanstral 1.5: Free AI Model Sets Formal Verification Records
Free Open-Source AI Agent OpenClaw Finally Launches on Android and iOS
WebBrain: open-source browser AI agent runs without the cloud or a subscription
Alibaba bans employees from Claude Code starting July 10 over backdoor suspicions
Alibaba bans Claude Code use in corporate environments effective July 10, 2026 — following Anthropic's accusations against the Qwen team of large-scale model…
Zhipu considers multi-billion IPO in Hong Kong after stock surge of 2000%
Chinese AI model developer Zhipu is exploring a secondary offering in Hong Kong to raise several billion dollars — the company's shares have surged 2000% since the…
LangSmith and LangChain OSS: how to comply with EU AI Act requirements by August 2026
HDBSCAN Clustering with LLM Embeddings: How Noise Labels Work
Technical stack of AI agents: LLM, orchestration, vector memory, and tools
Qwen, Gemma, Phi-4: five open-source omni-models for every data type
OpenAI launches Patch the Planet to protect open-source software with HackerOne and Trail of Bits
OpenAI, together with Trail of Bits, HackerOne and Calif, has launched Patch the Planet — a program of personalized support for open-source projects to boost their…
MoonMath AI releases open-source HIP kernel for AMD MI300X that outperforms official AITER v3
Startup MoonMath AI has open-sourced an attention kernel for AMD MI300X that beats AMD's official library across all tensor shapes and rounding modes.