11 results for “open-weight AI”
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.
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.
Z.ai confirmed Tuesday it developed Ox Alpha, the anonymous open-weight model that topped coding benchmarks after launching on OpenRouter last Thursday. The lab will release model weights Wednesday, giving developers a production-grade reasoning alternative to closed frontier systems.
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that Moonshot positions as its largest public release to date. The strategic story is not just parameter count.
Chinese technology and e-commerce giant Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and most capable artificial intelligence model to date, positioning. The back-to-back releases from Moonshot AI and Alibaba have rattled competitive.
Meta's Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model built specifically for always-on local agent workflows. Local agentic models change the economics of AI deployment.
Alibaba released Qwen-UI-Agent, an open-weight GUI agent that leads mobile benchmarks with 92.2% on real-device tests. The model unifies phone, desktop, and browser control with CLI execution and batched actions.
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.
Meta is rolling out Pocket, its AI-powered vibe-coding app for creating and sharing interactive mini-games, to all U.S. users after a quiet test in Brazil. The launch extends Meta's push to make generative AI creation tools mainstream across standalone mobile apps.
LTX, the open world model company spun out of Lightricks, has released LTX-2.5 — a rebuilt video and world model that generates a 10-second, 720p clip. The release reinforces a business model bet that open weights — not closed APIs — will.
Moonshot AI has launched Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model with native multimodal capabilities and a 1-million-token context window. Open-model releases have mostly clustered well below the trillion-parameter class.