#Open Source
Posts tagged #Open Source – 13 posts.
- Security
Mistral Releases Shieldstral: AI Guardian for a 16-GB Graphics Card
Mistral released an open AI safety model called Shieldstral on August 4, 2026, which evaluates content against freely formulated rules – without retraining for new guidelines. The…
- AI-Policy
White House Excludes Open-Source AI from Security Tests
The White House discussed its months-prepared review regime for AI models on August 4, 2026, with leading tech companies – however, the framework will not be published. Only closed top models from…
- Security
GLM-5.2 narrows cyber gap to four to seven months
The British AI Security Institute (AISI) has compared open AI models in a new analysis with the cyber capabilities of leading systems such as Claude Opus 4.6. The analysis published on July 17 shows…
- AI in Practice
Linux Kernel Backs AI Tool Sashiko: Torvalds Rebuffs Critics
The Linux kernel now has a clear, official stance on artificial intelligence – and it comes straight from the top maintainer himself. In an email to the Linux kernel mailing list, Linus Torvalds…
- AI-Models
Kimi K3 reaches Anthropic level – local models catch up
Moonshot AI has today released Kimi K3 – the company's first large language model with open weights. With 2.8 trillion parameters and a million token context, K3 positions itself on par with…
- AI-Models
Thinking Machines releases open AI model Inkling
Thinking Machines Lab released its first publicly accessible language model on July 15, 2026. Inkling utilizes a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 975 billion parameters, of which only 41 billion…
- AI-Economy
Nous Research aims for $1.5 billion valuation for Hermes
The AI startup Nous Research is reportedly negotiating a new funding round of at least $75 million, according to a report by TechCrunch. The valuation of the company behind the open AI agent Hermes…
- Research
Soofi S: German Consortium Releases Open AI Model
A German research consortium has released Soofi S, an open language model trained specifically for German and English. According to its developers, the 31.6-billion-parameter model surpasses the open…
- AI-Models
Robbyant releases AI world model LingBot-VA 2.0
The Ant Group subsidiary Robbyant has released LingBot-VA 2.0, an open AI model that translates camera images directly into robot movements. On the simulation benchmark RoboTwin 2.0, the system…
- AI-Economy
Ollama raises $65 million for open AI models
The provider Ollama announced a Series B funding round of $65 million on July 9, 2026. As Ollama states in its blog, the investment firm Theory Ventures is leading the round. For the company, founded…
- AI-Models
Tencent Hy3: 295B-MoE-Model with 21B Active Parameters
Tencent announced a fundamental rebuild of its pre-training and reinforcement learning infrastructure in 2026 – a rare signal for organizational change in an established AI lab. This decision was…
- AI
Mistral CEO Mensch warns against closed AI models
Mistral founder and CEO Arthur Mensch warns companies against relying on closed AI models from large providers. Providers of such models are increasingly storing customer data, thereby gaining deep…
- AI
pxpipe: How an Image Trick Lowers Claude Code Costs
An open-source tool called pxpipe exploits a peculiarity in Anthropic's pricing model: images are billed by pixel size, not by their text content. Developer Steven Chong has built a local proxy for…
