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.

Google restricts Meta's access to Gemini due to a shortage of computing capacity
Google was unable to provide Meta with sufficient computing capacity and has imposed restrictions on its access to the Gemini AI models, according to the Financial…

LangSmith learns to compare fine-tuned open-source LLMs with automatic scoring
LangChain has described how to test multiple fine-tuned open-source models in LangSmith: parallel runs, an LLM-judge, and comparative reports in a single interface.

France abandons Palantir: intelligence shifts to domestic ChapsVision
French intelligence is abandoning the AI tools of US company Palantir in favor of local ChapsVision — to avoid strategic dependence on the United States.

Chainguard launches Athena coalition: AI to patch open-source flaws before hackers do

DeepSeek closes the largest funding round in China — $7.4 billion at a valuation above $50 billion

Mistral launches physics AI for engineers: simulations in seconds instead of weeks

US pressures Anthropic: allies panic over threat of technological lag

Meta contractors posed as children to test ChatGPT and Gemini on dangerous topics
Hundreds of Meta contractors impersonated minors and deliberately provoked Gemini and ChatGPT into conversations about suicide, sex, and drugs — all part of the…

Qwen, Luma and Pika: testing AI video creation that’s hard to tell from real footage
An experiment showed how much AI video quality has improved over the past year and a half: Qwen, Luma and Pika can already create clips that are hard to distinguish…

Chrome, Edge and Firefox: AI Feature Test Reveals an Unexpected Winner

Anthropic restrictions show South Korea needs its own AI, says Upstage chief

Amazon Bedrock adds cross-region routing for AI requests for EU customers

AWS open-sourced Agent-EvalKit: systematic evaluation of AI agents in six phases

Together AI received ISO 27001:2022 certification for enterprise AI workloads
Together AI passed an international ISO 27001:2022 audit — an independent review confirmed the maturity of its information security system for enterprise customers.

Together AI at NVIDIA GTC 2026: Dynamo, multi-agent models, and voice AI
At GTC 2026, Together AI unveiled an integration with NVIDIA Dynamo 1.0, launched the NemoClaw stack for agents, and opened access to the 120B Nemotron 3 Super…









