Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size

Tencent has released Hy3, an open-source language model with 295 billion parameters built on a mixture-of-experts architecture. Only 21 billion parameters are active at any given time. Tencent says Hy [...]

Resemble AI drops Chatterbox Turbo, an open-source text-to-speech model that clones voices in five seconds

Chatterbox Turbo, a new open-source text-to-speech model from Resemble AI, clones voices from five seconds of audio and generates speech in under 150 milliseconds. The startup claims it outperforms El [...]

Cohere Transcribe Arabic is an open-source model built for Arabic's toughest transcription problems

Cohere has released Transcribe Arabic, an open-source model for Arabic speech recognition that the company says outperforms Whisper and OmniASR on dialects, code-switching, and bilingual Arabic-Englis [...]

Google's MedGemma 1.5 brings 3D CT and MRI analysis to open-source medical AI

Google has updated its open-source medical AI with MedGemma 1.5, a model capable of analyzing 3D medical scans like CTs and MRIs. The release also includes a specialized speech tool that reportedly ou [...]

X's 'open source' algorithm isn't a win for transparency, researchers say

When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's "for you" algorithm last month, Elon Musk said the move was a victory for transparency. "We know the al [...]

Sentient Foundation launches $42M program to back open-source AGI builders

For the past several years, the artificial intelligence industry has been moving toward an uncomfortable reality: the most powerful models, infrastructure, and capabilities are increasingly concentrat [...]

Alibaba's new open source Qwen3.5-Medium models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

Alibaba's now famed Qwen AI development team has done it again: a little more than a day ago, they released the Qwen3.5 Medium Model series consisting of four new large language models (LLMs) wit [...]

Open source Mamba 3 arrives to surpass Transformer architecture with nearly 4% improved language modeling, reduced latency

The generative AI era began for most people with the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT in late 2022, but the underlying technology — the "Transformer" neural network architecture that allows [...]

OpenAI offers open-source maintainers six months of free ChatGPT Pro and Codex access

OpenAI supports open-source developers with free access to ChatGPT Pro, Codex and security tools.<br /> The article OpenAI offers open-source maintainers six months of free ChatGPT Pro and Codex [...]