Alibaba Qwen3.5 Challenges OpenAI Dominance in AI Race
Open-weight AI with 17B active parameters delivers 60% cost savings and 8x throughput—redefining what free models can do
Open Source - Latest News & Analysis
In-depth coverage, analysis, and updates on Open Source in AI and tech. 21 articles on AI Pulse.
Mistral AI's $6B Bet: Can Open Source Beat Silicon Valley?
The French AI startup is challenging OpenAI and Google with a radical strategy: give away your best work, then charge for expertise. It's either genius or financial suicide.
Meta Released Llama 5: Beats GPT-5 on Every Benchmark
Meta's newest open-weight model sets new records across reasoning, coding, and multilingual tasks, intensifying the open vs. closed AI debate.
Google Open-Sources Gemma 3: What It Means for AI
The latest open-weight model from Google challenges Meta's Llama and raises the bar for what's freely available to developers.
Open-Source AI Helps African Farmers Double Crop Yields
CropWise AI, trained on 15 years of African agricultural data, gives smallholder farmers personalized planting, irrigation, and pest management advice via basic SMS.
The 10 Hottest AI Repositories on GitHub Right Now (February 2026)
From autonomous hackers to on-device multimodal models, these repos are defining the cutting edge. Combined: 800K+ stars.
OpenClaw: The Hottest AI Tool of 2026 and Best Uses
From automating 4,000 emails overnight to building custom trading bots, the open-source AI agent has 135K GitHub stars and a thriving ecosystem. We compiled the most useful repositories and creative use cases.
Llama 4 Beats GPT-5 on Coding and Math. Open-Source Just Won.
Meta's open-weights model outperforms OpenAI's flagship on HumanEval and MATH benchmarks. Anyone can run it locally.
Students Build Free AI Sign Language Translator
A team of college students created an app that uses your phone camera to translate ASL to text instantly, and they open-sourced the whole thing.
Meta Llama 4 Leaked: Beats GPT-5 on All Tests
Internal documents show Llama 4 outperforming all competitors. Meta plans to release it open-source in March.
Mistral Releases Free GPT-4 Competitor
Mistral Large 3 matches GPT-4o on most benchmarks and runs on a single GPU. The open-source AI movement just got a major boost.
DeepSeek V3.2 Just Passed GPT-5. Open Source AI Caught Up.
China's MIT-licensed model with 685 billion parameters matches frontier performance. OpenAI responded by open-sourcing their own models.
Meta Previewed Llama 4 'Behemoth,' One of Smartest LLMs
Llama 4 Scout and Maverick are out now. Behemoth — with over a trillion parameters — is coming. Llama has hit 1 billion downloads.
Why Open Source AI Might Win the Long Game
Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, and Qwen are catching up to closed models. The implications are enormous.
China's Kimi K2.5 Just Dropped and It's Beating GPT-5.2
Moonshot AI's 1 trillion parameter model is open source, multimodal, and running 100 agents in parallel.
Mistral Large 3: GPT-4 Level Performance for Free
The French AI lab releases their most powerful model yet. Running locally is now viable for serious work.
China's DeepSeek R2 Shocks the Industry—Again
Trained for $8M. Matches GPT-5 on reasoning. Open-weights. The cost efficiency gap with US labs is getting embarrassing.
Meta Releases Llama 4—And It's Open Source Again
405B parameters, state-of-the-art performance, and completely open weights. Zuckerberg's strategy is working.
DeepSeek Trained a GPT-4 Competitor for $6 Million
China's open-source AI lab spent 1/15th what OpenAI did. The 'Sputnik moment' is real.
Meta's Llama 4 Goes Full Multimodal: Text, Image, Audio, Video
The open-source AI leader adds native multimodal understanding. Commercial use allowed.
Meta's Llama 4: Open Source Catches Frontier Models
The latest open-weight model matches proprietary alternatives on most benchmarks while remaining freely available