Open Source AI
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Artificial Intelligence
AI Startups Face a Choice Between Openness and Control
AI startups face a strategic fork. TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will examine whether companies should build around open models, proprietary systems,…
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Large Language Models
DeepSeek’s New Flash Model Shrinks the Cost of Long Context
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on September 14, 2026, introducing a model built around one central goal: making long-context artificial intelligence cheaper…
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Future of Work
When AI Rewrites the Rules of Capitalism
AI will transform capitalism, and the shift is already moving beyond better software or faster research. Technology is going to…
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AI in Science & Research
An Open Lunar AI Maps Ice and Craters From Space
The Moon is gaining an open-source AI system built to read its surface at a new scale. NASA and IBM…
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AI News & Trends
Jetson Edge AI Gains New Reasoning Power With Compact Open Models
Reasoning and agentic AI are moving closer to the devices that use them. Compact open models released in 2026 can…
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AI News & Trends
China Turns AI Tokens Into Everyday Rewards
AI tokens are moving into daily commerce. Banks, cafes, telecom operators, restaurants, and online marketplaces in China are giving them…
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Machine Learning & Research
NeoMME Builds Multimodal Encoders From Scratch
NeoMME starts from zero. H Company researchers released the open-source family on September 3, 2026, with 260M- and 800M-parameter multimodal…
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AI News & Trends
Perplexity Brings High-Speed Local AI Inference to Apple Silicon Macs
Perplexity has open sourced Lily, a local inference engine built for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on Apple silicon. The project is written in…
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Machine Learning & Research
One Transformer Takes On Text, Images, and Document Search
NeoMME puts text and images inside one encoder. The system introduces multilingual multimodal models in 260M and 800M sizes, without…
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AI News & Trends
The AI Model Repository Nvidia Now Wants to Own
Nvidia is buying Hugging Face. The chip giant agreed to acquire the AI model repository for approximately $12.9 billion, or…
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