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.
Runpod Sponsors Project Odyssey, CivitAI's Open-Source AI Film Contest
GPU cloud Runpod is backing CivitAI's Project Odyssey AI film contest. The announcement discloses no prize pool or credit amount, and the post looks like archived…
Deep Cogito trained its Cogito v1 family on Runpod infrastructure on the road to ASI
San Francisco startup Deep Cogito trained its open Cogito v1 models on Runpod's cloud. The company's stated goal is artificial superintelligence; the lineup spans…
Runpod shows how to deploy Llama 3.1 8B on vLLM without your own servers
Runpod Blog has published a guide to running Llama 3.1 8B Instruct on vLLM via Serverless: GPU time is billed per second, and workers scale up from zero under load.
When Small LLMs Beat the Swarm: How Splitting Data Into Sections Gave a Weak Model a 4x Boost
A Habr Essay Reopens the Debate Over Who Owns Open Source Code in the Age of AI
Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai Calls Open Source Europe's Only Path to Tech Independence
vLLM now runs on Vera Rubin NVL72: 7.8x higher throughput per GPU
Stanford Posts Marco Pavone's Lecture on Graph-Based Robot Motion Planning
Stanford Online has published Lecture 6 of AA274A, on graph search for path planning, taught by NVIDIA autonomous vehicle researcher Marco Pavone. The recording is…
Anthropic Launches Cyber Mission: A Free AI Vulnerability Scanner With Over 90% Expected Accuracy
Anthropic has launched Cyber Mission: CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks will help protect power grids and water systems, while a free AI scanner will check…
Free Open-Source AutoCAD Alternative for 2D and 3D Appears on GitHub
I Ran Qwen on a $50 FPGA: How a Homemade AI Accelerator Works
Unsloth and Llama 3: How to Teach a Model to Call APIs Reliably via JSON
KDnuggets Shows How to Build a Stateless MCP Server in Python With HTTP Access
Open-source video editor Wunjo Make can now get plugins written via Claude Code, Codex and Cursor
The Wunjo Make repo now includes a builder and skills for cloud LLMs, so plugins that use local neural networks or APIs can be written with three AI agents and…
Agentgateway Brings LLM, MCP and A2A Traffic Into a Single Open-Source Proxy
The open-source Rust proxy Agentgateway handles three streams of AI traffic in one place: LLM requests, MCP calls and A2A agent communication, all under a single…