The Allen Institute for AI has released Molmo 2, an open-source video model designed to compete with larger proprietary systems in video understanding and analysis. The launch aims to demonstrate that smaller models can serve as practical alternatives for businesses. Emilia David reports for VentureBeat. Ai2 released three versions of Molmo 2: an 8B model …
Researchers at the University of Zurich and Cologne University are creating large language models trained solely on historical documents up to specific dates. The team, led by Daniel Göttlich, Dominik Loibner, Guohui Jiang, and Hans-Joachim Voth, describes their project on GitHub. The models, called Ranke-4B, contain four billion parameters and are trained on 80 billion …
Essential AI has launched Rnj-1, an open-source large language model designed to excel at coding, mathematical reasoning, and scientific tasks. The model, named after Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan and pronounced “range-1,” marks the company’s first major contribution to the open-source AI ecosystem. The team reports on the Essential AI blog that the 8 billion parameter …
Mistral AI has launched Mistral 3, a collection of 10 open-source AI models designed to run on devices ranging from smartphones to enterprise cloud systems. The French startup released all models under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing unrestricted commercial use. The release includes Mistral Large 3, the company’s flagship model, and the Ministral 3 series …
German AI startup Black Forest Labs, founded by the original creators of Stable Diffusion, has launched FLUX.2, a new family of AI models for generating and editing images. According to the company, the system is designed for professional creative workflows, aiming for reliability and control rather than one-off demonstrations. FLUX.2 introduces several key enhancements over …
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), a Seattle-based nonprofit research institute, has released Olmo 3, a new family of open-source language models. According to Ai2, the new models are designed to be competitive with other leading open models in performance and efficiency while offering a new level of transparency for developers and researchers. The key …
A new open source AI model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI has matched or exceeded the performance of leading proprietary systems, including OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5, according to multiple benchmarks. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the Kimi K2 Thinking model achieved 44.9 percent on Humanity’s Last Exam, 60.2 percent on BrowseComp, …
IBM has launched four new artificial intelligence models that are small enough to run on a standard laptop or even within a web browser. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that these Granite 4.0 Nano models represent a shift in AI development, prioritizing efficiency over massive size. The models are open source and available under the …
Chinese AI startup MiniMax has launched MiniMax-M2, a new large language model available under a permissive MIT license for free commercial use. The company states the model is specifically designed for complex “agentic” tasks, where AI acts independently to use software tools, and for programming. According to a report by VentureBeat, citing the independent benchmarking …
IBM has announced the launch of Granite 4.0, the next generation of its open-source large language models. The new models feature a hybrid architecture that combines two different AI technologies, Transformer and Mamba, to balance high performance with significantly lower memory requirements and costs. The models are designed for enterprise use, with a strong focus …