Open-Source Models
Open-weights releases, licensing, and the teams choosing to self-host.
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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…

What Makes an AI Model ‘Open Source’?
A plain-English explainer on open-weight versus open-source AI models, what licenses actually allow, and the real tradeoffs of…

Alibaba Ships Qwen3.8-Max Amid Dispute
Alibaba released its 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max model while facing Anthropic's allegations of the largest AI model-distillation campaign it has…

MiniMax Open-Sources H3 Video Model
MiniMax open-sourced H3 on August 3, 2026, a unified video generation model that produces 2K clips with native…

South Korea Ships Two 700B+ AI Models
SK Telecom's A.X K2 and LG's K-EXAONE 2.0 both launched within 48 hours under Apache 2.0 licensing, competing…




