Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model that allegedly matches models up to five times its active size

Tencent has released Hy3, an open-source language model with 295 billion parameters built on a mixture-of-experts architecture. Only 21 billion parameters are active at any given time. Tencent says Hy [...]

Cohere Transcribe Arabic is an open-source model built for Arabic's toughest transcription problems

Cohere has released Transcribe Arabic, an open-source model for Arabic speech recognition that the company says outperforms Whisper and OmniASR on dialects, code-switching, and bilingual Arabic-Englis [...]

Chinese AI startup MiniMax plans to open-source a 2.7 trillion parameter model later this year

Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters. MiniMax plans to release the model as open source.<br /> The article Chinese AI startup MiniMa [...]

Databricks makes Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 its default coding engine after it matched Opus at lower cost

Databricks benchmarked coding agents on its own multi-million-line codebase and found that the Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 matched Anthropic's Opus 4.8 at $1.28 per task versus $1.94. The c [...]

Silicon Valley’s rift over open source pushes back contemplated White House bans on Chinese AI

The Trump administration discussed sanctions and cloud bans targeting Chinese open-source AI models, according to the New York Times. OpenAI and Anthropic pushed for restrictions, while Nvidia, Google [...]

Six data shifts that will shape enterprise AI in 2026

For decades the data landscape was relatively static. Relational databases (hello, Oracle!) were the default and dominated, organizing information into familiar columns and rows.That stability eroded [...]

Microsoft built Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B to know when to think — and when thinking is a waste of time

Microsoft on Tuesday released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact open-weight multimodal AI model that the company says matches or exceeds the performance of systems many times its size — while co [...]

Meet ZAYA1-8B, a super efficient, open reasoning model trained on AMD Instinct MI300 GPUs

Even as leading AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic battle over the compute to train and release ever larger, more powerful models, other labs are going in a different direction — pursuing the de [...]

Inflection AI returns to consumer market with Pi Journeys after Microsoft upheaval

Inflection AI, the Palo Alto startup that two years ago became Silicon Valley's most famous cautionary tale about the brutal economics of frontier AI, announced Tuesday that it is returning to th [...]