MiniMax's new open M2.5 and M2.5 Lightning near state-of-the-art while costing 1/20th of Claude Opus 4.6

Chinese AI startup MiniMax, headquartered in Shanghai, has sent shockwaves through the AI industry today with the release of its new M2.5 language model in two variants, which promises to make high-en [...]

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source

Cal is moving its flagship open-source program to a proprietary model because it can't cope with the dangers of AI hacking its open code. [...]

The Linux Foundation's latest partnership could shake up open-source ecosystems - here's why

The two biggest corporate open-source foundations are merging. [...]

Trump's AI plan says a lot about open source - but here's what it leaves out

The AI Action Plan pretty much frees up AI companies to do what they want, but it also supports the use of open source for AI. What that means is one big open question. [...]

CoSyn: The open-source tool that’s making GPT-4V-level vision AI accessible to everyone

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have developed a groundbreaking tool that allows open-source AI systems to match or surpass the visual [...]

Chromebooks and data centers today, Pixel and more tomorrow? Google is betting its entire security stack on open source and OpenTitan, and here's why

OpenTitan, an open source silicon root of trust, is now shipping in Chromebooks and planned for Google data center deployment. [...]

This Open Source Robot Brain Thinks in 3D

Open source language models are crucial to AI innovation. Can open robotics models do the same for physical machines? [...]

DeepSeek returns with V4-Pro and V4-Flash, a year after its ‘Sputnik moment’

The Hangzhou startup released preview versions of both models on Hugging Face on Friday. V4-Pro claims top performance on coding and maths among open models, trails only Gemini 3.1-Pro for world knowl [...]

What enterprises should know about The White House's new AI 'Manhattan Project' the Genesis Mission

President Donald Trump’s new “Genesis Mission” unveiled Monday is billed as a generational leap in how the United States does science akin to the Manhattan Project that created the atomic bomb d [...]