Reflection, founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, raised $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation to build open-source frontier AI models as an American alternative to Chinese labs like DeepSeek. The startup, backe...
Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face, will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 about making AI research and models open and accessible. The session will focus on how open-source development, rat...
Meta's new Superintelligence Lab is reportedly discussing a pivot away from open-source AI models like the delayed Behemoth model toward closed-source development. This potential shift would mark a major philosophical ch...
Mistral AI, a French startup valued at $6 billion, has positioned itself as Europe's answer to OpenAI with its suite of AI models and Le Chat assistant, which recently reached 1 million mobile downloads. Founded in 2023...
Nonprofit AI research institute Ai2 has released Olmo 2 1B, a 1-billion-parameter AI model that outperforms similarly-sized models from Google, Meta, and Alibaba on several benchmarks. The model is available under the pe...
JetBrains has released Mellum, an open AI model specialized for code completion, under the Apache 2.0 license. Trained on 4 trillion tokens and containing 4 billion parameters, the model requires fine-tuning before use a...
Meta announced that its Llama family of AI models has reached 1.2 billion downloads, up from 1 billion in mid-March. The company also revealed that thousands of developers are contributing to the ecosystem, creating tens...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company's Llama AI model family has reached 1 billion downloads, representing a 53% increase over a three-month period. Despite facing copyright lawsuits and regulatory challen...
AI company Sesame has open-sourced CSM-1B, the base model behind its realistic virtual assistant Maya, under a permissive Apache 2.0 license allowing commercial use. The 1 billion parameter model generates audio from tex...
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has announced plans to open source portions of its online services' code as part of an upcoming "open source week" event. The company will release five code repositories that have been thoroughly...
