Inside Ring-1T: Ant engineers solve reinforcement learning bottlenecks at trillion scale

China’s Ant Group, an affiliate of Alibaba, detailed technical information around its new model, Ring-1T, which the company said is “the first open-source reasoning model with one trillion total p [...]

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 [...]

I Love NotebookLM, but This Open Source Version Could Tempt Me to Switch

Open Notebook is an open source and privacy respecting alternative that is on the cusp of greatness. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

'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. [...]

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 [...]

Google's DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens in parallel and self-corrects as it goes

GenAI image generators like Stable Diffusion do not draw a picture pixel by pixel from left to right. They start with noise and iteratively refine the entire image in parallel until it converges, in a [...]

SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3's performance and matching GPT-5.6 Sol for world's third best on Artificial Analysis

Elon Musk's company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, has released Grok 4.6, its latest frontier AI model, with a focus on long-running agents, coding and knowledge work — and a pricing strategy [...]