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Buoyant has released Kinference, an Apache 2.0 inference control plane for vLLM on Kubernetes. It adds declarative routing policies, KV-cache-aware load balancing and per-tenant metrics, and cut median TTFT 95% in Buoyant’s own benchmark. The post Buoyant Releases Kinference: An Open Source Inference Control Plane for…
Ricursive Intelligence released Ripple-65B Preview, a 65B dense open-weight LLM under Apache 2.0. It scores 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, ahead of US open models up to 15x its size. The post Ricursive AI Releases Ripple-65B Preview: A 65B Dense Open-Weight Model Scoring 80.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 appeared first on…
“Most of the risk is actually created by a couple of players building behind closed doors,” Clément Delangue said of the need for open source AI.
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more freely available, how do companies capture value? And with Chinese open models gaining ground, can…
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Deep Principle has released Hydrogen-1.0, an open-weight scientific model for chemistry, materials science and life sciences. It is built by post-training Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 on domain data, laboratory records and agent discovery trajectories. For developers, it offers open weights that report a FrontierScience-Research…
Nace AI open-sources Drex Max v1, a 27B multimodal decision model scoring 67.52 that runs on Apple Silicon. The post Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon appeared first on MarkTechPost .
UC Berkeley’s LEANN vector index stores a pruned graph and recomputes embeddings at query time. It matches HNSW accuracy at 90% recall using 4 GB instead of 188 GB, at the cost of seconds-level search. The post Meet LEANN: An Open-Source Vector Index that Shrinks a 60M-Chunk RAG Index from 201 GB to 6 GB appeared…
Hugging Face released Carbon-X, an open 14.8B DNA language model built on Qwen3-14B. It reads raw DNA in chat, answers in English, and averages 66.7% across 5 DNA benchmarks under Apache 2.0. The post Hugging Face Releases Carbon-X, a 14B Open DNA Language Model that Brings DNA and Natural Language Together for the…
Gradium has open-sourced Phonon, a family of on-device text-to-speech models. The English Phonon 31m ships under Apache 2.0, fits in 64.5 MB, and starts speaking in about 7 ms on a laptop CPU. The post Gradium Open-Sources Phonon, a 31M-Parameter On-Device TTS Model Under Apache 2.0 appeared first on MarkTechPost .
Recursive has released Flint, an Apache 2.0 local coding model with 40B total and 2.5B active parameters. It reports 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified and 125+ tokens per second on an M4 Pro MacBook Pro. The post Recursive Releases Flint, an Open-Weight 40B MoE Local Coding Model for Agents with 2.5B Active Params appeared…
Before you share the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue," take note. Clem Delangue, Hugging Face's co-founder who is featured in the film, says it went "full doomer mode" and isn't accurate.
DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the Apache 2.0 inference framework that serves DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in production. It targets NVIDIA SM100 GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs, and ships offline inference only. The post DeepSeek Open-Sources DeepInfer, the Inference Framework Behind DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash appeared first…
The idea of embedded evaluators — in which supposedly "neutral" third-party observers are placed inside AI organizations — has been popularized over the last several months, as AI labs grapple with a rash of safety incidents that have spurred concerns over the potential harms of their technology.
