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Meta returns to open weights: Muse Glimmer, its first open-weights release since Llama 4, scores 35 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It is a 30B-parameter model, and the first from Meta

Announcing our first open-weights world-action model, Praxis-1. It turns out that, unsurprisingly, you can get predictably better robotics policy performance by scaling third-person video. It’s been f

Kimi K2.6 @Kimi_Moonshot is the new leading open-weights agent model, landing at #4 on Claw-Eval (Pass^3: 62.3%). Key takeaways: - 👑 Best open-source agent, period: Pass^3 of 62.3% is the highest of a

Fugu Max is now live on @OpenRouter! 🐡 Our learned multi-agent orchestration engine routes tasks across open-weights and specialized models for Pareto-frontier efficiency. • 2/6 per 1M tokens • Multim

The best base model for training isn't about someone else's benchmarks. Excited to offer @thinkymachines' first open-weights model: Inkling. 975B MoE, multimodal, with Apache 2.0. A great foundation f

The latest finding in the LangSmith Signal: Open Models are having a moment. 1 in 3 AI teams ran an open-weights model in April 2026, up from 1 in 5 nine months ago. The overall number of teams using

Toto 2.0 is here: Datadog AI's 5 open-weights forecasting models (4m-2.5B params) finally make scaling work for time series forecasting! #1 on BOOM, GIFT-Eval, and TIME. Weights/code Apache 2.0. 🔗 Rea

DeepSeek V4-Pro is live on Fireworks: → Frontier-class coding and reasoning, open-weights → 1M context standard, MIT licensed → 1.74 / 3.48 per 1M tok Get started now → https://app.fireworks.ai/models

We're the top open-weights model on Design Arena! BREAKING: Kimi K2.6 takes 1st overall of open weights models on Design Arena! Kimi K2.6 is in the same performance band as Claude Opus 4.7 - while est

Mistral AI introduced Shieldstral, a 3‑billion‑parameter, open‑weights model designed for content‑safety tasks and capable of on‑device deployment. The announcement was shared via a tweet from @Mistra

Open-weight models have overtaken closed models on OpenRouter. 69.1% of token volume now goes to open-weight models. 30.9% to closed. Competition is a discovery procedure — and developers are discover

Yes, open-source / open-weight models are important for a healthy AI ecosystem. That's how we can verify things, check claims, and keep up outside the closed labs. Plus, it gives us the freedom to run

Amazing to see @AIatMeta launch the best US open-weight model so far! The model will be available on Ollama shortly. 🫡 Today we’re releasing Muse Spark Open, the most capable US open-weight model to d

Today we're announcing Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that adapts to new robot embodiments with light finetuning. Video is eating the world Introducing Praxis-1, an open-weight World Acti

The Gemma series is an amazing set of highly performant open-weight models. They have proven extremely effective in industrial settings where site-deployed agents need exactly this as a base for domai

First open-weight model from @poolsideai! Apache license, and available on Ollama to try. 👇👇👇 model page Today we’re releasing Laguna XS.2, Poolside’s first open-weight model. It’s a 33B total / 3B ac

Moonshot has released Kimi K2.6, an open-weight language model that represents a new advancement in the field, now made available to Pro and Max tier subscribers on Perplexity. The model's open-weight

Today we’re releasing Muse Spark Open, the most capable US open-weight model to date. Built for coding and agentic work, it excels at long-horizon tasks, complex software engineering, and multi-step r

Very good to see more competent labs training open-weight models. This Reflection's new Beam model seems to have strong reasoning efficiency, which I think is a big deal for long-running agents. 3-4x

There’s generally a massive difference in quality between specialized OCR providers, “simple” open-weight OCR models, and free/OSS solutions. 1️⃣ Specialized OCR models (including LlamaParse) solve fo

What's better than an open-weight multimodal model release? Well, the technical report. I just love how these labs like Qwen and DeepSeek continue to drop gem after gem. Qwen3.8-Flash is the latest in

We've joined the alliance. Open-weight models will ensure that we live in a safer digital world, and that America does not get left behind Attackers have frontier AI. Defenders need a frontier AI ecos

Local open-weight AI on a laptop has been improving more than twice as fast as Moore's Law! Between May 2024 and May 2026, the most expensive MacBook Pro you could buy stayed at 128 GB of unified memo

Muse Spark Open is now on Ollama. @Meta's open-weight model for coding and tool use, with a 1M-token context window. Run it on Ollama’s cloud: ollama run muse-spark-open:cloud Use with Claude Code: ol

Today I’m excited to introduce OpenDocRouter - a unified API for document parsing with the latest frontier and open-weight models. There are a lot of VLMs and OCR models that can be used for document

MiMo-V2.6 is 'simply' the best (for now). Despite its simple architecture design it's currently No.1 in the open-weight benchmarks (weighted average). With 'simple,' I mean a classic Grouped Query Att

Recent Bloomberg reports indicate that a growing number of startups are developing custom AI models by leveraging open-weight alternatives to high-cost proprietary platforms like OpenAI’s and Anthropi

Our open-weight models, products and infrastructure give organisations a real choice over how and where they run AI, not just access to a model. That's frontier performance without the lock-in. Full s

Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B is live on Together AI. The Qwen team’s new open-weight MoE packs 2.4T total parameters with 95B active, a 1M context window, and strong coding & agent capabilities. Start building:

Muse Glimmer is live on Fireworks. The new open-weight model from Meta Superintelligence Labs is a 30B dense model built for always-on agents that reason across many sequential tool calls and can reco

We are in an insane run of open-weight drops. Every modality, open source is winning. This is what an open source AI summer ☀️ looks like: 🧠 LLMs & Reasoning → DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (my king 👑): 304B

OWN YOUR INTELLIGENCE Last year, building on open-weight models was primarily a cost rationalization exercise. Slightly worse performance for a much cheaper price. Now, it is increasingly an existenti

Whoa, Meta released a new open-weight LLM yesterday, something that hasn't happened since the good old Llama days. Their Meta Muse Glimmer model is a 30B multimodal reasoning model with a Gemma-like a

Introducing Muse Glimmer, an open-weight 30B-parameter model optimized for local, always-on agent workflows. Muse Glimmer delivers strong performance on key agentic use cases and benchmarks compared w

Agents want to collaborate. So we’re putting that instinct to work on improving open-weight LLMs at formal math. Our latest agent collab tackles the @SAIRfoundation challenge of building a cheat sheet

Security at the foundation requires openness at the foundation. As open-weight models become critical infrastructure for the next generation of software, the systems around them must be transparent, i

The Kimi K3 architecture figure for yesterday's big open-weight model release, along with some observations and thoughts. 1. Yes, it looks relatively complicated, but it's essentially a scaled-up prod

We recently joined NVIDIA, Microsoft, and others in supporting open-weight AI. Today, we’re putting that belief into the product with model choice on Replit, starting with Kimi K3. The future is the r

“An open-weight frontier model helped contain the intrusion.” Attackers have frontier AI. Defenders need a frontier AI ecosystem—the best open and closed models, force-multiplied by a global community

Big update: Among open-weight models, Kimi K3 (Max) is #1 in the Agent Arena with +9.75% net-improvement, surpassing GLM-5.2 (Max) at +7.12%, and landed the #1 spot across 5 signals (see below). Kimi

BREAKING: Inkling by @thinkymachines is 9th overall on Agentic Web App Arena by Design Arena with an Elo of 1257 It's an open-weight model in the same performance band as Claude Opus 4.6 by @Anthropic

Loving this piece: bringing delight to your daily coffee, your daily workflows, and your AI bill. @gumloop is now running open-weight models on Fireworks in production. 80% lower cost vs. closed-lab A

Before the week ends, let's acknowledge one of the most INSANE week ever for open AI, with 25+ notable open-weight drops across every modality: 🧠 LLMs → NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra: 550B hybrid Mamba-MoE,

And another open-weight release. Nemotron 3 Ultra has an ultra impressive capability:efficiency ratio! Design-wise, it carries forward the Mamba-2-attention hybrid stack and LatentMoE introduced in th

The MiniMax M2 series was one of the most widely used open-weight LLM series earlier this year. Now, we got a technical report with some interesting tidbits. I summarized some of them below: 1. Full a

open-weight LLMs have come a long way on agent tasks! but the harness you wrap them in matters just as much as the model itself, and arguably the interface you use to drive that harness matters even m