Allen Institute for AI rivals Google, Meta and OpenAI with open-source AI vision model

Ai2 unveiled Molmo 2, a new open-source AI model that can analyze video with precision — tracking objects, counting events, ...

AI Chipmaker Nvidia Just Released Open Source Models For AI Agents

Nvidia expands its open AI strategy with Nemotron 3 and the SchedMD acquisition, aiming to scale AI development, cut costs, ...

Nvidia bulks up open source offerings with an acquisition and new open AI models

Nvidia acquired SchedMD, the lead developer of Slurm, and launched the Nemotron 3 family of open source AI models.

Bolmo’s architecture unlocks efficient byte‑level LM training without sacrificing quality

Ai2 releases Bolmo, a new byte-level language model the company hopes would encourage more enterprises to use byte level ...
Business Wire

Olmo 3: Charting a Path Through the Model Flow to Lead Open Source AI

Leading power, open roots: Olmo 3 introduces full model flow transparency and traceability, combining top-tier performance with increased efficiency and cost savings to advance open and sustainable AI ...
GeekWire

Ai2 releases Olmo 3 open models, rivaling Meta, DeepSeek and others on performance and efficiency

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released a new generation of its flagship large language models, designed to compete more squarely with industry and academic heavyweights. The Seattle-based nonprofit ...
Wired

The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China

Since 2022, America has had a solid lead in artificial intelligence thanks to advanced models from high-flying companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI. A growing number of experts, ...
VentureBeat

Meta returns to open source AI with Omnilingual ASR models that can transcribe 1,600+ languages natively

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...
InfoWorld

Perplexity’s open-source tool to run trillion-parameter models without costly upgrades

TransferEngine enables GPU-to-GPU communication across AWS and Nvidia hardware, allowing trillion-parameter models to run on older systems. Perplexity AI has released an open-source software tool that ...
Wall Street Journal

Large Language Models Get All the Hype, but Small Models Do the Real Work

There’s a paradox at the heart of modern AI: The kinds of sophisticated models that companies are using to get real work done and reduce head count aren’t the ones getting all the attention.
Quanta Magazine

In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...
ZDNet

Anthropic's open-source safety tool found AI models whistleblowing - in all the wrong places

The "Petri" tool deploys AI agents to evaluate frontier models. AI's ability to discern harm is still highly imperfect. Early tests showed Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-5 to be safest. Anthropic has ...