Alibaba’s Qwen Team has released a new open source AI image generator called Qwen-Image. According to its developers, the model specializes in creating images with accurately rendered text in both English and Chinese, a common challenge for many AI systems. Writing for VentureBeat, journalist Carl Franzen notes this capability allows for creating content like posters, …
OpenAI has announced the release of two new open-weight language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. This marks the company’s first open-weight model release in over five years, since GPT-2 in 2019, signaling a significant strategic shift for the organization that has recently focused on proprietary systems like GPT-4o and ChatGPT. The models, their weights, and a …
Krea AI has released an open-source version of its image generation model, designed to produce visuals with a distinct aesthetic and avoid the common look of AI-generated content. In their post authors Sangwu Lee and Erwann Millon detailed the philosophy and process behind their new model, FLUX.1 Krea. The model was developed in collaboration with …
Proton has released a new AI assistant named Lumo, designed to prioritize user privacy. The chatbot can summarize documents, write emails, and generate code while storing data locally on a user’s device. According to an article by Emma Roth for The Verge, Proton uses “zero-access” encryption. This method gives users an exclusive key to their …
French AI company Mistral has released Voxtral, its first family of open-source AI models for audio processing. The company positions Voxtral as a solution for developers who previously had to choose between less reliable open-source systems and expensive, closed proprietary models. Mistral claims Voxtral offers high performance at “less than half the price” of comparable …
The Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2, a new open source language model designed to compete with proprietary systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. In an article for VentureBeat, Michael Nuñez reports that the model shows particularly strong performance in coding and autonomous task completion. According to the company, Kimi K2 outperforms leading …
In late summer 2025, a new large language model will be made publicly available by a consortium of Swiss research institutions. According to an announcement from ETH Zurich by authors Florian Meyer and Mélissa Anchisi, the model was co-developed by researchers at EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). It aims to …
A YC-backed startup has released BrowserOS, an open-source web browser that integrates AI agents to automate tasks. In a post on Hacker News, the two-person development team stated its goal is to provide a privacy-first alternative as AI agents gain access to sensitive user data. The browser runs these agents locally on a person’s computer, …
OpenAI is reportedly preparing to release a new open-weights language model, with a potential launch as soon as next week. This information comes from a report by Tom Warren in The Verge, citing sources familiar with OpenAI’s plans. The release would be the company’s first open-weights model since it launched GPT-2 in 2019. Unlike OpenAI’s …
Hugging Face has launched SmolLM3, a new 3-billion-parameter language model designed for high performance and efficiency. In their official post, the company states that the model outperforms others in its size class and is competitive with some larger alternatives. A key feature is its dual-mode capability, which allows it to provide direct answers or show …