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75 stories taggedopen-source-ai.
A $16 AI Training Run Built Six Models Nobody Had Made Yet
A Hugging Face tool called ML Intern let one developer train, evaluate and publish six specialist AI models in a couple of days, spending less than the cost of a restaurant meal.
Google's new EmbeddingGemma 2 crams search for text, images, audio and video onto a phone
The 740-million-parameter open model from Google DeepMind runs offline, under 600MB of RAM on a Pixel 11 Pro.
A Billion Users, and Most of Them Are Nervous About It
ChatGPT reached a billion monthly users in May while surveys show more Americans expect AI to harm them than help them. The contradiction is not as strange as it looks.
A Tiny Open-Source AI Can Write a Research Report in 51 Seconds. Scientists Can Run It at Home.
Hugging Face and the Allen Institute for AI have released AstaBrief 8B, a small, open model that generates cited scientific reports faster than the big proprietary systems, and lets researchers keep sensitive unpublished work off third-party servers.
The Allen Institute Just Open-Sourced a Training System for Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Olmo-core 3 lets academic labs and smaller teams build huge AI models without the usual sky-high compute bill. Here's what changed and why it matters.
Hugging Face Can Now Rank Every Open-Source Voice AI in Hours
More than 8,000 text-to-speech models exist, but testing them has always taken too long. A new automated scorecard changes that, and puts open-source voices on equal footing for the first time.
Nvidia's Kumo Tabular Reads a Spreadsheet Cold and Beats Every Tuned Model Doing It
A new open AI model from Nvidia makes predictions on business data tables without any training on your data, no setup, and no specialist required, and it just topped every major leaderboard.
Hugging Face Lets You Run Compressed AI Models on Your Mac With One Line of Code
Hugging Face has built GGUF support into its Transformers library, letting Apple Silicon Mac users load and run lightweight AI models at speeds matching dedicated local-AI apps, no special setup required.
A Third of ChatGPT Prompts Are Stories. The People Writing Them Are Fine With That.
A new study of 500,000 real ChatGPT conversations finds fiction is far more common than the publishing industry's AI panic suggests.
NASA and IBM Built a Free AI Model to Read 17 Years of Moon Data
The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model is now available to any researcher, trained almost entirely on imagery from an orbiter that has been circling the moon since 2007.
Paying for a frontier AI model now buys you about four months of advantage
A new Mozilla report puts hard numbers on the gap between the priciest closed AI and the best free-to-download models. For most everyday work, the gap is shrinking fast.
Xi Jinping Volunteers China to Lead AI Development Across the Developing World
At the BRICS summit in New Delhi, President Xi Jinping proposed an open-source AI community, shared cloud infrastructure, and engineer-training programmes for member nations.
Firefox now has a private AI assistant and it will not remember a thing you said
Mozilla has paired Firefox Smart Window with Mistral's open-source models, and by default neither company keeps a copy of your conversations.
A Fruit Fly's Brain Is Now Generating Magazine Story Ideas, and It's Not as Crazy as It Sounds
Researchers mapped every neuron in a real fly's brain and open-sourced it. Now people are using that map to pitch articles, trade stocks, and play video games. Wired AI's Will Knight reports on where this is actually heading.
Someone Rebuilt the World's Most Popular AI Image Tool Inside a Single Browser Canvas
Hugging Face's Workflow1111 squeezes eleven image and video pipelines into one draggable graph, and you can run the whole thing without owning a GPU.