Featherless.ai pulls in $20M to scale serverless hosting for open-source AI models

Featherless.ai Inc., a serverless inference platform startup that hosts open-source artificial intelligence models, today ...

American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding

By putting the weights of a highly capable, 33B-parameter agentic model in the hands of researchers and startups, Poolside is ...
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OpenAI launches its first open model in years so it can stop being on the ‘wrong side of history’—while still keeping its most valuable IP under wraps

Despite what its name suggests, OpenAI hadn’t released an “open” model—one that includes access to the weights, or the numerical parameters often described as the model’s brains—since GPT-2 in 2020.
Inc

OpenAI’s New Open-Weight Model Could Be Huge for Governments and Banks

On March 31, OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman announced on X that his company is working on a “powerful new open-weight language model,” and that it would be released in the coming months. It’s a ...

Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-source model: How to try it

Google's newest Gemma model is now both open-weight and open-source ...
Fast Company

An OpenAI ‘open’ model shows how much the company—and AI—has changed in two years

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that his company intends to release a “powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning” in the next few months. That would mark a major shift for a company ...
Forbes

The Top Open AI Models Are Chinese. Arcee AI Thinks That’s A Problem.

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek logo is seen on a phone in front of a flag of China on January 28, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. American investors are confronting ...
CNET

OpenAI's New Models Aren't Really Open: What to Know About Open-Weights AI

OpenAI just dropped two new open-weights models. Here's why that isn't the same as being fully open. Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and ...