The company that made open weights mainstream now competes on discounts
Meta released Muse Spark 1.2 along with its own coding agent, Muse Code, which is designed to pick up exactly where it left off after a crash. The cheapest tier runs just 20 cents per million output t [...]
American models broke into Hugging Face. A Chinese model was used to investigate.
Hugging Face chief executive Clément Delangue told CNBC that China is winning the AI race, with Chinese-developed models accounting for 41% of downloads on his platform over the past year, the large [...]
Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says
Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published a day earlier counts 2,045 million for Qwen t [...]
Google’s Gemma Open Models Pass 1 Billion Downloads as Variants Top 100K
Google DeepMind's Gemma family of open models has passed one billion cumulative downloads, the company said on August 20, 2026, capping two years in which outside developers published more than 1 [...]
IBM drops open-weight Granite 4.2 family with built-in agentic capabilities under Apache 2.0
IBM is releasing its Granite 4.2 language models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes, trained on about 15 trillion tokens with a context window of up to 512,000 tokens. The larger models use "agentic RL&quo [...]
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence treated as a leadership priority
More than 100 organisations including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft have signed an open letter urging businesses and governments to make cyber defence an immediate leadership priority and fi [...]
Apple’s new Siri AI is more than just a smarter assistant — it's a new enterprise app layer
Apple’s new Siri AI, unveiled yesterday at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2026), may look like a consumer product story on the surface. But for enterprise developers and I [...]
