Open-Source Models
Open-weights releases, licensing, and the teams choosing to self-host.
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Beats Its Own Flagship, at a Fraction of the Price
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash, a 552B-parameter MIT-licensed model with a 1M-token context window and cached input at $0.003 per…

AT&T Sends 40% of Its AI Traffic to Open Models
AT&T now routes 40 percent of employee AI requests to open-weight models instead of proprietary AI, cutting coding…

Run Open-Source AI Models Locally
A practical guide to running open-weight AI models on your own hardware, including hardware requirements, quantization, and the…

Best Open-Source AI Models in 2026
A guide to the leading open-weight AI models in 2026, including Llama, DeepSeek, K-EXAONE, and Qwen, and how…

Meta Bets on Open Models to Win Back Ground
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight agentic model, as part of a broader push to reclaim ground…




