Odysseus is a new open-source project that lets users run a full-featured AI workspace on their own hardware. Developer pewdiepie-archdaemon publishes the project on GitHub as a self-hosted alternative to commercial AI interfaces such as ChatGPT and Claude, with a strong focus on privacy and local data storage. And, yes, that PewDiePie, the YouTube guy. …
Nvidia’s new Nemotron 3 Ultra has claimed the top spot among open AI models from the United States. Maximilian Schreiner reports for The Decoder that the model scores 48 points on the Artificial Analysis intelligence ranking, putting it clearly ahead of other open US models. For comparison, Google’s Gemma 4 31B scores 39 points, Nvidia’s …
Nvidia has announced the DGX Station for Windows, a deskside workstation it describes as the world’s first deskside AI supercomputer. Mike Wheatley reports for SiliconANGLE that the system was unveiled at GTC Taipei alongside the Computex conference and is planned for release in the fourth quarter of 2026. The machine is built around Nvidia’s GB300 …
Canadian AI company Cohere has unveiled Command A+, a large language model designed for complex reasoning, document processing, and autonomous workflows. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model is available for free on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, making it the first Cohere model that anyone can use, modify, and commercialize without …
Stability AI has released Stable Audio 3.0, a new family of generative audio models trained on fully licensed music data. The release includes four models designed for different devices and use cases, three of which are available as open-weight models that anyone can download and modify. The four models are: The small and medium models …
Mistral has launched remote coding agents and a new AI model called Mistral Medium 3.5, marking a significant step toward autonomous software development. Mistral explains that the system allows coding tasks to run in the cloud without requiring a developer to stay at their computer. The new model is a dense 128-billion-parameter system with a …
Nvidia has launched Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open AI model that combines text, vision and audio processing in a single system. Most existing AI agent systems rely on separate models for each modality, which increases latency and cost. Nvidia says its new model eliminates that fragmentation. The model uses a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture with …
Xiaomi has launched two new open source artificial intelligence models: MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that both models are available under the permissive MIT License, meaning businesses and developers can use, modify, and deploy them commercially without restrictions. The models are designed for so-called agentic tasks, where an AI system autonomously completes …
Chinese AI company DeepSeek has released two new open-source language models under the name DeepSeek-V4. The models, called V4-Pro and V4-Flash, are available for download and via API. Both support a context window of one million tokens, meaning they can process roughly eight times the length of a long novel in a single interaction. DeepSeek’s …
Google has launched Gemma 4, a new family of open-weight AI models that the company describes as its most capable to date. The models are built on the same research and technology as Google DeepMind’s proprietary Gemini 3 system and are released under an Apache 2.0 open-source license, which allows developers to use and modify …