VentureBeat

MiniMax-M1 is a new open source model with 1 MILLION TOKEN context and new, hyper efficient reinforcement learning

Chinese AI startup MiniMax, perhaps best known in the West for its hit realistic AI video model Hailuo, has released its latest large language model, MiniMax-M1 — and in great news for enterprises and ...
VentureBeat

Weibo's new open source AI model VibeThinker-1.5B outperforms DeepSeek-R1 on $7,800 post-training budget

Another day in late 2025, another impressive result from a Chinese company in open source artificial intelligence. Chinese social networking company Weibo's AI division recently released its open ...
TechCrunch

Open source agentic startup LangChain hits $1.25B valuation

LangChain raised $125 million at a $1.25 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday. TechCrunch reported in July that the provider of a popular open source framework for building AI agents was ...
ZDNet

OpenAI returns to its open-source roots with new open-weight AI models, and it's a big deal

OpenAI releases its first open-source LLMs in six years. OpenAI's smallest AI model can run on a laptop. Early reports indicate these new models may have trouble with hallucinations. Open-weight ...
CNET

I Love NotebookLM, but This Open-Source Version Could Tempt Me to Switch

NotebookLM is an "AI research tool" as Google calls it, but its flexibility lends itself to many names. It's great at breaking down complex topics into palatable and easy to understand information, ...
Forbes

Benefits And Considerations For Businesses Deploying Open-Source AI

As AI takes hold across businesses of every type and size, open-source solutions like those now offered by Meta, Google, xAI and others are catching up to proprietary AI models and providing a strong ...