Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool-calling vision model for multimodal reasoning

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 ...

Mistral's latest open-source release shows smaller models beat large ones - here's why

ZDNET's key takeaways Mistral 3 is designed for customization and privacy. Its smaller multimodal models can run on single ...

Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of open models designed to run on laptops, drones, and edge devices

Mistral AI releases 10 open-source AI models designed to run on smartphones, drones, and enterprise systems, escalating ...

Mistral closes in on Big AI rivals with new open-weight frontier and small models

Mistral unveils its Mistral 3 lineup, including a frontier model and efficient small models designed for offline, ...

Outside the U.S. and Europe, the momentum of China’s open source AI models is plain to see

Cynthia Siantar, the CEO of Dyna.AI, which is based in Singapore and builds AI applications for financial services, also said ...
Law

Open Source AI Versus Proprietary AI Models: Key Differences in Contract Terms and IP Risks - Part 2

Part 1 of this article covered the evolving paradigms for releasing AI models, including open source AI and open weights AI. In open source AI, according to the Open Source Initiative, the AI provider ...
Fast Company

An OpenAI ‘open’ model shows how much the company—and AI—has changed in two years

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that his company intends to release a “powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning” in the next few months. That would mark a major shift for a company ...
SiliconANGLE

OSI clarifies what makes AI systems open-source, but most ‘open’ models fall short

The highly respected Open Source Initiative, which has a reputation for being one of the most prominent stewards of open-source software, has finally come up with an official definition on what makes ...
SiliconANGLE

Lightricks shakes up AI video creation with powerful open-source model

Lightricks Ltd. is throwing down the gauntlet to artificial intelligence powerhouses OpenAI, Google LLC and others with the release of its latest open-source video generation model, LTX Video-13B. The ...
ZDNet

ServiceNow and Nvidia say their new open-source model is built for security - here's why

ServiceNow and Nvidia have launched a new open-source AI model. It's designed to build custom agents and optimize security. Despite ample hype, many businesses aren't seeing ROI from AI. Software ...
Inc

OpenAI’s New Open-Weight Model Could Be Huge for Governments and Banks

If the term “open-weight language model” doesn’t mean anything to you, fear not—we’ll explain exactly what that means in a moment. But first, here’s why this release matters: For large organizations ...