Arcee's U.S.-made, open source Trinity Large and 10T-checkpoint offer rare look at raw model intelligence

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 [...]

Arcee aims to reboot U.S. open source AI with new Trinity models released under Apache 2.0

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, [...]

Arcee's new, open source Trinity-Large-Thinking is the rare, powerful U.S.-made AI model that enterprises can download and customize

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 [...]

Black Forest Labs launches Flux.2 AI image models to challenge Nano Banana Pro and Midjourney

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 [...]

Mistral AI launches Forge to help companies build proprietary AI models, challenging cloud giants

Mistral AI on Monday launched Forge, an enterprise model training platform that allows organizations to build, customize, and continuously improve AI models using their own proprietary data — a move [...]

Baidu just dropped an open-source multimodal AI that it claims beats GPT-5 and Gemini

Baidu Inc., China's largest search engine company, released a new artificial intelligence model on Monday that its developers claim outperforms competitors from Google and OpenAI on several visio [...]

MiniMax-M2 is the new king of open source LLMs (especially for agentic tool calling)

Watch out, DeepSeek and Qwen! There's a new king of open source large language models (LLMs), especially when it comes to something enterprises are increasingly valuing: agentic tool use — that [...]

'Western Qwen': IBM wows with Granite 4 LLM launch and hybrid Mamba/Transformer architecture

IBM today announced the release of Granite 4.0, the newest generation of its homemade family of open source large language models (LLMs) designed to balance high performance with lower memory and cost [...]

z.ai debuts faster, cheaper GLM-5 Turbo model for agents and 'claws' — but it's not open-source

Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known for its powerful, open source GLM family of large language models (LLMs), has introduced GLM-5-Turbo, a new, proprietary variant of its open source GLM-5 model aimed at [...]