AI agents in Slack are moving beyond simple chatbots that answer when tagged. Anthropic has expanded its Claude Tag agent so it can read the full context of a channel conversation and decide whether to intervene. NanoClaw, meanwhile, now lets users create teams of separate, persistent agents directly from a Slack message. The developments illustrate …
Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-27B, an open-weight AI model designed to handle coding, reasoning, images and video on local machines. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the 27-billion-parameter model is available under the Apache 2.0 licence, allowing companies and developers to download, adapt and host it themselves. The release has attracted attention because of its balance …
Mistral AI is opening its inference platform to third-party open models, beginning with GLM-5.2 from Chinese developer Z.ai. The French company says customers will be able to use external models on the same infrastructure, regional settings and service levels offered for Mistral’s own models. The move is part of a broader infrastructure push. Mistral has …
LTX has released LTX-2.5, an open-weights video and world model designed for faster generation, local deployment and integration into creative workflows. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model is available through Hugging Face, the LTX API and ComfyUI, where it launches with native support. The release adds native multishot generation, allowing users to create …
Nvidia has introduced Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open artificial intelligence model designed for high volume agent tasks, alongside NeMo Switchyard, a tool that routes tasks between different AI models. Kyt Dotson reports for SiliconANGLE that the releases target companies that use AI agents for a mix of routine requests and more demanding reasoning work. Nemotron …
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter AI model that developers can download, modify and run on powerful personal computers. The move marks a renewed commitment to openly available model weights after Meta shifted its newer Muse family toward proprietary releases earlier this year. Glimmer is available under the Apache 2.0 license, which permits commercial …
Alibaba plans to require large commercial users of its upcoming Qwen3.8-Max AI model to share part of the revenue they generate from it, according to people familiar with the strategy. Stephen Nellis and Eduardo Baptista report for Reuters that the company intends to introduce the rule when it releases the next version of Qwen. The …
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-2.6B, an open-weight language model built to run AI agents directly on local hardware, including laptops, smartphones and Raspberry Pi computers. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model targets companies that need lower latency, tighter data control or lower operating costs than cloud-based AI can offer. The 2.6 billion parameter …
Cloudflare has open sourced Cloudflare OS, a platform that lets organizations deploy AI agent workspaces connected to their own data, tools and internal processes. The company announces in an official Cloudflare Blog post that the software is designed to give employees a browser based workspace where agents can research, create documents, build applications and automate …
Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling-Small, an open-weights AI model designed to deliver much of the performance of its larger Inkling model with substantially lower computing demands. The company says the model performs similarly to Inkling across reasoning, coding and multimodal tasks while using fewer active parameters for each generated token. Inkling-Small has 276 billion …