Nous Research has quietly launched Hermes 4, a family of AI language models that the company claims matches leading commercial systems while removing most content restrictions. Michael Nuñez reports about the release for VentureBeat. Unlike ChatGPT or Claude, Hermes 4 responds to nearly any request without safety guardrails that have become standard in commercial AI …
The Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek recently released its new model, DeepSeek V3.1, which is freely available as open source. According to an article by Michael Nuñez in VentureBeat, early tests show its performance rivals that of leading proprietary systems from American companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. The model quickly gained popularity among developers after …
Not long ago, generating an image with AI was mostly a technological novelty. It was a nice party trick with limited practical use. As of 2025, that has changed. AI image generation has evolved into a practical tool for marketing professionals. From unique visuals for social media campaigns to website assets and conceptual product shots: …
OpenAI has released two new open source language models, gpt-oss-120B and gpt-oss-20B, marking its first major open release since 2019. According to a report by Carl Franzen for VentureBeat, the initial reactions from the AI community are highly mixed. Supporters praise the move as a significant step for open source AI in the West. Experts …
The AI startup Deep Cogito has released four new open source language models designed to get better at reasoning on their own. In an article for VentureBeat, Carl Franzen reported on the release from the San Francisco based company. The models, part of the Cogito v2 family, are trained to internalize their own thought processes. …
The Chinese AI startup Z.ai has launched its new GLM-4.5 family of powerful open source models. According to reporting by Carl Franzen, a key feature is the ability to generate complete PowerPoint presentations from a single prompt. The family includes the flagship model GLM-4.5 and a more efficient version called GLM-4.5-Air. Both models are designed …
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 …
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 …