New open-source voice model listens nonstop and decides every 0.4 seconds whether to speak or stay silent

Unlike GPT-4o or Qwen3.5-Omni, Audio Interaction doesn't wait for a recording to end: it translates, transcribes, chats, and picks up everyday noises like coughing in a single stream. Code, model [...]

Sentient Foundation launches $42M program to back open-source AGI builders

For the past several years, the artificial intelligence industry has been moving toward an uncomfortable reality: the most powerful models, infrastructure, and capabilities are increasingly concentrat [...]

Linux Foundation and 20 tech giants launch Akrites to fix open-source flaws before AI-powered attacks hit

About twenty tech companies, AI labs, and banks are joining forces through Akrites to fix vulnerabilities in critical open-source software before AI tools can exploit them.<br /> The article Lin [...]

Open-source tool pxpipe hides text in PNGs to cut Claude Code and Fable 5 token costs up to 70%

The open-source tool pxpipe converts long text prompts for Claude Code into compact PNGs, exploiting the fact that Anthropic charges for images by pixel size, not text content. Developer Steven Chong [...]

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 [...]