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 …
OpenAI has postponed the release of its open model for an indefinite period, marking the second delay for the project. According to a report by Maxwell Zeff for TechCrunch, CEO Sam Altman announced the decision on Friday. Altman stated on X that the company needs more time for “additional safety tests and [to] review high-risk …
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 …
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 …