Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t
Open-weight AI models have nearly caught the frontier on capability. On safety, they have not. And once the weights are public, no lab can enforce a guardrail. A new evaluation of China’s leading op [...]
Ideogram 4.0 drops as an open-weight model with native 2K resolution and improved text rendering
Ideogram releases version 4.0 of its text-to-image model as an open-weight model with native 2K resolution, bounding box control, and improved text rendering. On the DesignArena leaderboard, it ranks [...]
Visa, Mastercard and 140 firms launch Open USD, a stablecoin built to undercut Circle
Aconsortium of more than 140 financial and technology companies, among them Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Coinbase, launched a new dollar-pegged stablecoin on Tuesday called Open USD. The venture, run [...]
German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks in both English and German
A German research consortium has released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open language model trained entirely on Deutsche Telekom's cloud infrastructure in Munich. The model uses an efficient hybrid archite [...]
Open-weight models now match frontier cyber performance from just four months ago at a fraction of the cost
The British AI Security Institute warns that open-weight models like GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro now trail closed frontier models in cyber capabilities by four to seven months. At the start of 2025, t [...]
Microsoft's open-weight AI push is so obviously an Azure play it hurts
Microsoft, along with Meta, Nvidia, and more than 20 other companies, is pushing for open-weight AI models in an open letter. The strategic logic is simple: the more models running on Azure, the less [...]