Open Source AI News & Updates
Hugging Face Releases Lightweight Open-Source Robotics AI Model SmolVLA
Hugging Face has released SmolVLA, a 450 million parameter open-source AI model for robotics that can run on consumer hardware like MacBooks. The model is designed to democratize access to vision-language-action capabili...
Hugging Face launches open-source humanoid robots HopeJR and Reachy Mini
Hugging Face announced two new open-source humanoid robots: HopeJR, a full-size robot with 66 degrees of freedom priced at $3,000, and Reachy Mini, a desktop unit costing $250-$300. The company aims to democratize roboti...
DeepSeek Releases Efficient R1 Distilled Model That Runs on Single GPU
DeepSeek released a smaller, distilled version of its R1 reasoning AI model called DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B that can run on a single GPU while maintaining competitive performance on math benchmarks. The model outperform...
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model on Hugging Face under a permissive MIT license, allowing commercial use. The updated model contains 685 billion parameters, making...
Hugging Face Releases Open Source Computer-Using AI Agent
Hugging Face has released Open Computer Agent, a freely available cloud-hosted AI agent that can operate a Linux virtual machine with preinstalled applications including Firefox. The agent can handle simple tasks like we...
Anthropic Issues DMCA Takedown for Claude Code Reverse-Engineering Attempt
Anthropic has issued DMCA takedown notices to a developer who attempted to reverse-engineer and release the source code for its AI coding tool, Claude Code. This contrasts with OpenAI's approach to its competing Codex CL...
OpenAI Developing Open Model with Cloud Model Integration Capabilities
OpenAI is preparing to release its first truly "open" AI model in five years, which will be freely available for download rather than accessed through an API. The model will reportedly feature a "handoff" capability allo...
OpenAI Announces Plans for First 'Open' Language Model Since GPT-2
OpenAI has announced plans to release its first 'open' language model since GPT-2 in the coming months, with a focus on reasoning capabilities similar to o3-mini. The company is actively seeking feedback from developers,...
Altman Admits OpenAI Falling Behind, Considers Open-Sourcing Older Models
In a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that Chinese competitor DeepSeek has reduced OpenAI's lead in AI and admitted that OpenAI has been "on the wrong side of history" regarding open source. Altman suggeste...