I’ve tested more AI tools than I can count, but only these four open-source gems made the cut because they're easy to use, private, and free. LocalAI is an open-source app that lets you run large ...

Whether it is a 0.8B model running on a smartphone or a 9B model powering a coding terminal, the Qwen3.5 series is ...

OpenAI is opening up again. The company’s release of two “open-weight” models—gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—this month marks a major shift from its 2019 pivot away from transparency, when it began ...

Mistral 3 is designed for customization and privacy. Its smaller multimodal models can run on single GPUs. Mistral hopes the models create "distributed intelligence." Another open-source model has ...

Surveying the state of America’s artificial intelligence landscape earlier this year, Misha Laskin was concerned. Laskin, a theoretical physicist and machine learning engineer who helped create some ...

Sept. 22 (UPI) --Meta announced Monday it is partnering with the U.S. General Services Administration on an initiative that will give the government access to its Llama open source AI models. The ...

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and ...

Discover LTX-2 by Lightricks, the groundbreaking open-source AI model that generates synchronized audio and video. Explore ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

I’ve been writing about the democratic future of large language models (LLMs). Will this tech turn out to be an inherently centralized, authoritarian technology like nuclear power, or a more ...