For much of 2025, the frontier of open-weight language models has been defined not in Silicon Valley or New York City, but in Beijing and Hangzhou.Chinese research labs including Alibaba's Qwen, DeepSeek, Moonshot and Baidu have rapidly set the pace in developing large-scale, open Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models — often with permissive licenses and leading benchmark performance. While OpenAI fielded its own open source, general purpose LLM this summer as well — gpt-oss-20B and 120B — the uptake has been slowed by so many equally or better performing alternatives. Now, one small U.S. company is pushing back.Today, Arcee AI announced the release of Trinity Mini and Trinity Nano Preview, the first two models in its new “Trinity” family—an open-weight MoE model suite fully tra [...]
The baton of open source AI models has been passed on between several companies over the years since ChatGPT debuted in late 2022, from Meta with its Llama family to Chinese labs like Qwen and z.ai. B [...]
San Francisco-based AI lab Arcee made waves last year for being one of the only U.S. companies to train large language models (LLMs) from scratch and release them under open or partially open source l [...]
French AI startup Mistral has weathered a rocky period of public questioning over the last year to emerge, now here in December 2025, with new, crowd-pleasing models for enterprise and indie developer [...]
US start-up Arcee AI spent roughly half its total venture capital to train Trinity-Large-Thinking, an open reasoning model with 400 billion parameters designed to take on Claude Opus in agent tasks.&l [...]
It's not just Google's Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5 we have to be thankful for this year around the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S.No, today the Germ [...]
The next big trend in AI providers appears to be "studio" environments on the web that allow users to spin up agents and AI applications within minutes. Case in point, today the well-funded [...]
Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architectu [...]
In an industry where model size is often seen as a proxy for intelligence, IBM is charting a different course — one that values efficiency over enormity, and accessibility over abstraction.The 114-y [...]