z.ai's open source GLM-5 achieves record low hallucination rate and leverages new RL 'slime' technique

Chinese AI startup Zhupai aka z.ai is back this week with an eye-popping new frontier large language model: GLM-5.The latest in z.ai's ongoing and continually impressive GLM series, it retains an [...]

Kilo launches AI-powered Slack bot that ships code from a chat message

Kilo Code, the open-source AI coding startup backed by GitLab cofounder Sid Sijbrandij, is launching a Slack integration that allows software engineering teams to execute code changes, debug issues, a [...]

Moonshot AI debuts Kimi K2.5, most powerful open source LLM beating Opus 4.5 with swarm of parallel agents

Chinese company Moonshot AI upgraded its open-sourced Kimi K2 model, transforming it into a coding and vision model with an architecture that supports an Agent Swarm orchestration. The new model, Moo [...]

Alibaba's small, open source Qwen3.5-9B beats OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B and can run on standard laptops

Despite political turmoil in the U.S. AI sector, in China, the AI advances are continuing apace without a hitch.Earlier today, e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen Team of AI researchers, focused prim [...]

Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5 is 'open,' 595GB, and built for agent swarms — Reddit wants a smaller one

Two days after releasing what analysts call the most powerful open-source AI model ever created, researchers from China's Moonshot AI logged onto Reddit to face a restless audience. The Beijing-b [...]

American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding

The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model for general users (Claude Opus 4.7), then, a week or so later, its r [...]

Xiaomi's new open source, agentic AI coding harness MiMo Code beats Claude Code at ultra-long, 200+ step tasks

Xiaomi's MiMo AI team has open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0, a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant says outperforms Anthropic's Claude Code on key agentic codi [...]

NanoClaw and JFrog launch 'immune system' to block AI agents from downloading malicious code

The creators of the hit, enterprise-friendly, open source OpenClaw variant NanoClaw are partnering with software supply chain management leader JFrog have to launch a new, joint security integration t [...]

Databricks research shows multi-step agents consistently outperform single-turn RAG when answers span databases and documents

Data teams building AI agents keep running into the same failure mode. Questions that require joining structured data with unstructured content, sales figures alongside customer reviews or citation co [...]