27 results for “open weights”
A sharp commercial divide is opening across Chinese open-weight models: Alibaba and Moonshot have added $50M revenue gates and anti-MaaS restrictions to protect their clouds, while DeepSeek and Zhipu stick to permissive MIT terms.
Mistral now powers Firefox Smart Window beta in France and North America, with UK and Germany expected later in 2026. Zero-retention browsing AI — separate from Firefox’s chatbot sidebar.
Two dozen companies and organizations have signed an open letter urging United States policymakers to protect open-weight artificial intelligence models. The letter carves out space for one technique that has become contentious in AI.
NVIDIA announced it has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, pledging to keep the open-model hub multi-cloud and multi-accelerator. The deal locks in the open distribution layer after weeks of unsigned takeover talks.
DeepSeek V4 Flash is positioned as a fast, lower-cost open-weight AI model for developers who need long-context reasoning without paying frontier-model. The model is described as a Mixture-of-Experts system with 284 billion total.
Muse Spark 1.3 is live in Muse Code and the Meta Model API with agentic and coding gains Meta documents — max reasoning and open-weight timing still unconfirmed.
DeepSeek open-sourced its experimental V4-Flash-Vision-Exp multimodal model on Hugging Face under MIT license on August 31, 2026. The release gives developers local access to the 305B-parameter vision-language model that previously ran only on DeepSeek's API platform.
Meta has entered the AI coding agent arena with Muse Code, a terminal-based tool now in beta that targets professional developers working across large. Meta's entry reshapes the competitive dynamics of AI-assisted software development.
Mistral AI has released Shieldstral, a 3-billion-parameter open-weight content moderation model that the company says matches the safety performance. Content moderation has traditionally forced a trade-off between coverage and cost.
A JPMorgan note relayed by Reuters and CGTN forecasts a Zhipu AI model exceeding 1 trillion parameters for August 2026. Zhipu has not confirmed the model, its specs, or the date — leaving developers to separate analyst signals from vendor commitments.
Mistral AI and HUMAIN announced a strategic collaboration worth hundreds of millions of euros to advance sovereign AI in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. The partnership will develop Arabic-language frontier models and target regulated industries with local infrastructure.
Google DeepMind announced its Gemma open models have surpassed one billion downloads and 100,000 community variants. The milestone underscores Gemma's role as a default substrate for open-weights AI development across space, healthcare, and research.