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 …
Chinese AI company MiniMax has released MiniMax-M1, a new open-source language model that can process up to one million tokens of context. This makes it capable of handling entire book collections in a single conversation, reports Carl Franzen for VentureBeat. The model is available for free commercial use under an Apache 2.0 license on platforms …
French AI company Mistral has released its first reasoning models and announced plans to build European cloud infrastructure, positioning itself as an alternative to American tech giants. The company unveiled two AI models called Magistral alongside a new data center project near Paris. Magistral Small, with 24 billion parameters, is available as open-source software under …
Google has quietly launched an experimental Android app called AI Edge Gallery that allows users to run artificial intelligence models directly on their smartphones without an internet connection. The app is available through GitHub and will come to iOS devices later. Users can download and run AI models from the Hugging Face platform to perform …
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released a significant update to its open-source reasoning model, bringing it closer to competing with paid services from OpenAI and Google. The new DeepSeek-R1-0528 model shows substantial improvements in complex reasoning tasks across mathematics, science, and programming. VentureBeat’s Carl Franzen reports that the updated model achieved 87.5% accuracy on the …
Prime Intellect has introduced INTELLECT-2, a 32B parameter AI model that represents the first of its kind trained using globally distributed reinforcement learning. The model employs a decentralized approach, utilizing compute resources from contributors around the world rather than centralized GPU clusters. In a technical report, Prime Intellect details their custom-built infrastructure components, including PRIME-RL, …
Microsoft has introduced three new small language models (SLMs) focused on complex reasoning tasks: Phi-4-reasoning, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, and Phi-4-mini-reasoning. These models represent a significant advancement in what small AI models can accomplish, particularly in mathematical reasoning and multi-step problem solving. The flagship Phi-4-reasoning-plus, a 14-billion parameter model, demonstrates performance that rivals much larger AI systems. According …
Alibaba has released Qwen3, a new family of large language models that compete with leading AI systems from OpenAI and Google. The lineup includes two mixture-of-experts (MoE) models and six dense models, with parameters ranging from 0.6 billion to 235 billion. According to benchmarks shared by Alibaba, the flagship Qwen3-235B-A22B model outperforms DeepSeek R1 and …
French AI startup Pleias has released two open-source small reasoning models specifically designed for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with native citation support. As reported by Carl Franzen for VentureBeat, the new models—Pleias-RAG-350M and Pleias-RAG-1B—are available under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing commercial use. Despite their small size, the models outperform many larger alternatives on multi-hop reasoning …