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Anthropic launches free AI security scans for open source

Anthropic on Thursday launched OSS Scanner, a free, opt-in service that runs regular vulnerability scans on eligible open-source projects using its most capable models, including Claude Mythos. The scanner is part of a new effort the company calls the Anthropic…

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OpenAI’s always-on AI agents hit glitches as clones emerge

Less than two weeks after OpenAI launched dots, its "always-on" AI agents, users are reporting failed tasks, dropped connections and agents that vanish. At the same time, developers have started releasing free, open-source versions that people can host themselves.

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Meta open-sources Muse Gadgets code for DIY AI hardware

On Friday, October 2, Meta released open-source ESP32 firmware and a Linux software development kit (SDK) that let hobbyists connect its Muse AI agent to devices they build themselves. Muse Gadgets is meant to take an agent that has mostly…

Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6-Pro becomes top open-weight AI model

Xiaomi, the Chinese electronics and electric vehicle maker, has released MiMo-V2.6-Pro, which has claimed the top spot among open-weight AI models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 46 — tying xAI's proprietary Grok 4.7 and leaping…

Mozilla report: open AI models trail frontier labs by just 4.4 months

The performance gap between the leading proprietary AI models built by U.S. tech companies and the best open-weight models — many of them Chinese — has narrowed to just 4.4 months, according to a new Mozilla report published on September…

Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9B, vows to keep platform open

Nvidia has confirmed its $12.9 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, gaining control of the open-source AI community's most widely used platform for sharing models, datasets, and applications. The deal, announced on September 3, represents Nvidia's second-largest acquisition ever, after its…

Open-source AI nearly closes gap with top proprietary models

The distance between the best AI models anyone can download and the industry's top proprietary systems has shrunk to its narrowest margin yet, reshaping how Corporate America thinks about artificial intelligence spending.

Tencent open-sources 770B-parameter Hy4 AI model

Tencent has released Hy4 preview, an open-source artificial intelligence model with 770 billion parameters, marking the Chinese tech giant's latest move in an intensifying global AI race. The model became available over the weekend through public repositories, Tencent Cloud, and…

AWS to acquire DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB

Amazon Amazon.com, Inc. announced on Wednesday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, one of the fastest-growing open-source analytical databases in data engineering. The transaction is expected to close in early September,…

OpenAI open-sources Codex agent framework under Apache 2.0

OpenAI on August 20 released Harness, the core execution framework behind its Codex coding agent, as open-source software under the Apache 2.0 license. The move allows developers to embed, modify, and commercialize the agent infrastructure without funneling all interactions through…

Qualcomm open-sources Modular AI platform and Mojo language after $3.9B acquisition

Qualcomm has open-sourced Modular's entire AI software platform and the Mojo programming language at ModCon 2026, the first conference held by Modular as a Qualcomm company. The announcement, made on August 18 in San Francisco, places the full Mojo compiler…

Alibaba releases Qwen 3.8-27B with open weights, topping Meta’s rival model

Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-27B, a 27-billion-parameter dense multimodal model under the Apache 2.0 license, delivering on a promise made at the model family's August 3 launch to open-source both its compact and flagship models within weeks.

Meta open-sources Muse Glimmer, a 30B AI model built to run offline on consumer PCs

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight AI model that can run entirely offline on consumer hardware, marking a notable step in the company's push to make capable AI accessible without cloud subscriptions or internet connectivity.

Z.ai claims its new open-source GLM-5.3 model rivals Mythos 5 in finding software flaws

Chinese AI startup Z.ai announced on Friday that its open-source GLM-5.3 model scored 84.5% on the CyberGym vulnerability-detection benchmark, slightly surpassing the 83.8% it reported for Anthropic's restricted Mythos 5 model. The results, which have not been independently verified, mark…

DeepSeek launches open-source coding agent to rival Claude Code

DeepSeek on Thursday released an open-source agent framework designed to challenge Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, marking the Chinese AI lab's most direct move yet into the software layer that controls how AI models execute complex coding tasks.

Nvidia developing 1-trillion-parameter open-source AI model to rival top systems

Nvidia is building a new family of open-source AI models called Nemotron 4, with the largest version expected to contain at least 1 trillion parameters, according to a report published Tuesday by The Information citing multiple employees working on the…

Nvidia releases free open-source AI model for agents

Nvidia on Tuesday released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a free, open-source AI model built for enterprise use that can run on a single GPU, alongside a new model routing tool called NeMo Switchyard designed to cut costs on AI workloads.

Alibaba to charge big users of its next open-source AI model

Alibaba plans to require large commercial users of its upcoming Qwen3.8-Max open-source AI model to share a portion of the revenue they generate from deploying it, according to an exclusive Reuters report published Thursday citing two people familiar with the…

Google DeepMind open-sources AI model that adds extra day to cyclone warnings

Google DeepMind Alphabet Inc. published research in Nature on Thursday showing that its WeatherNext AI model has achieved state-of-the-art accuracy in predicting tropical cyclones, effectively giving forecasters an extra day of warning. The company is simultaneously open-sourcing the model to…

Cloudflare open-sources its AI agent workspace for any organization to deploy

Cloudflare on Wednesday released Cloudflare OS, an open-source AI workspace designed to give every enterprise employee access to AI agents, internal company tools, and custom micro-applications through a browser — without requiring developer expertise.

Chinese AI models gain ground in Africa, challenging Silicon Valley’s dominance

Across Africa's tech hubs, developers are turning to Chinese artificial intelligence models to build tools tailored to local languages and needs — a shift that underscores how China's aggressive pricing and open-source strategy are reshaping the global AI landscape at…

Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max, its largest open-source AI model

Alibaba released its latest flagship AI model, Qwen3.8-Max, on Monday, featuring 2.4 trillion parameters and claiming performance competitive with leading models from OpenAI and Anthropic. Hong Kong-listed Alibaba shares jumped sharply in early trading following the announcement.

Chinese open-weight AI models pressure US tech giants to rethink strategy

A wave of powerful open-weight artificial intelligence models from Chinese companies is reshaping the global AI landscape, prompting American tech giants to call on Washington to develop a national strategy for open-source AI before the United States loses its footing…

OpenAI open-sources Codex Security CLI for code scanning

OpenAI has released its Codex Security CLI as an open-source project, making the AI-powered security scanning tool freely available to developers under the Apache-2.0 license. The release, which OpenAI acknowledged on July 29 after users on Hacker News discovered the…

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 open weights amid U.S. IP theft accusations

Moonshot AI made the full weights of its Kimi K3 model available for public download on Sunday, delivering on a pledge to open-source the 2.8-trillion-parameter system — the largest AI model ever released for free use — just as Washington…

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 model weights for free download

China's Moonshot AI has released the full model weights of its Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter system that now stands as the world's largest open-weight AI model available for free download, fine-tuning, and self-hosting. The weights went live on Hugging Face…

Nvidia and 30+ firms launch Open Secure AI Alliance

Nvidia and more than 30 companies announced the formation of the Open Secure AI Alliance on Monday, a coalition aimed at developing and sharing open-source technologies and tools to strengthen AI safety and cybersecurity defenses.

AMD releases open-source AI model trained on its own GPUs

AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. released Instella-MoE on July 24, a fully open mixture-of-experts language model with 16 billion total parameters trained from scratch on AMD Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs. The release includes model weights from every training stage,…

Musk says X will open-source its full codebase in August

Elon Musk announced on Thursday that X will release its complete codebase as open source starting in August, a move that would make the platform the first major social media company to publicly disclose its full production code for independent…

Andrew Ng releases OpenWorker, an open-source AI agent for desktop tasks

Andrew Ng on Wednesday announced OpenWorker, an open-source desktop AI agent designed to produce completed deliverables — polished documents, Slack replies, calendar updates — rather than conversational responses. The tool, released under an MIT license, runs locally on Mac with…