Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the open-weight coding model pitched as the West’s answer to DeepSeek and Qwen

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight model built for agentic coding that the San Francisco startup says matches or exceeds models several times its size. The model u [...]

Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 is a small open-weight coding model that punches well above its size

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, its third coding model in three months. Rather than rely on raw scale, the company trained it to keep checking its work, revise failed approaches, and avoid giving [...]

Anthropic won’t defend open weights. In June it made the same argument for itself.

On Friday, 25 companies signed a letter defending open-weight AI. Three big names were missing. By Monday, two of them had signed. That left Anthropic alone, and Silicon Valley noticed. The pile-on Nv [...]

China's MiniMax H3 is the first open model to top an AI video ranking

MiniMax releases H3 video model weights, putting an open model at the top of a video ranking for the first time.<br /> The article China's MiniMax H3 is the first open model to top an AI vi [...]

Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Lightning prioritizes speed over maximum intelligence

Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open-weights model with just 3.6 billion active parameters that matches OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b on the Intelligence Index despite being four times smaller [...]

Ling 3.0 Flash is the smartest open model at its size

Ling 3.0 Flash is the smartest open model in its size class.<br /> The article Ling 3.0 Flash is the smartest open model at its size appeared first on The Decoder. [...]

Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license

Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released new open model weights under the Apache 2.0 license with Qwen 3.8. The dense 27-billion-parameter model is designed to outperform the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in c [...]

GLM-5.3 tops the open-model rankings and undercuts rivals on price, but its release is delayed

GLM-5.3, the AI model from Chinese startup Z.ai, scores 60 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. That ties it with Kimi K3 for the top spot among open models, and it's seven poin [...]

OpenAI rallies 100+ companies to sign open letter warning AI-powered cyberattacks on critical infrastructure are imminent

OpenAI, together with more than 100 companies including Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, Deutsche Telekom, and SAP, has published an open letter on AI-powered cyber defense. The coalition warns of increa [...]