The mysterious open-weight model 'Ox Alpha', released anonymously on OpenRouter and quickly topping leaderboards, was confirmed to be the newest iteration of Z.ai's GLM series. Z.ai plans to publish the weights on Wednes...
Meta released Glimmer, an open-weight model users can download and run locally, while keeping its more capable Muse Spark model behind proprietary APIs. The release accompanied a 6,500-word letter from Mark Zuckerberg ar...
At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Andrew Ng each argued against letting a handful of labs gatekeep AI, while disagreeing on how open model weights should be. Hinton distinguished open-s...
River AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC with participation from Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek, just two months aft...
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model under Apache 2.0 designed to run multi-step AI agents locally on a single consumer GPU, supporting text, images, and over 100 languages. The release is...
A SaferAI evaluation found Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 trails OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 by only a few months on cyber and biology capabilities, yet refused none of the offensive cyber or dual-use bi...
Dario Amodei published a blog post denying industry rumors that Anthropic backs a ban on open-weight models, whether Chinese or general, calling non-dangerous open models a public good. He instead framed his concerns aro...
TechCrunch's Equity podcast discussed the reaction to Moonshot AI's Kimi model, which reignited debates over US competitiveness and open versus proprietary AI. The hosts argued the panic echoes the earlier DeepSeek episo...
White House science advisor Michael Kratsios accused Chinese company Moonshot of building its open-weight LLM Kimi K3 by distilling Anthropic's Fable model and using export-banned Nvidia GB300 chips. AI researchers are s...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned that sanctions and Entity List designations remain possible after a White House official accused China's Moonshot of industrial-scale distillation of Anthropic's Fable model a...
