Topic
AI models whose weights are released publicly for anyone to download, run and fine-tune.
Confirmed 3 September. Nvidia's second-largest acquisition, and the open-model registry changes hands.
The brief: a quiet pricing-page edit on 12 August, then peak/off-peak billing from 16 August.
The largest open-weight release ever, eleven days after the hosted launch.
The brief: a food-delivery giant gives away a trillion-parameter AI built entirely on Chinese chips — and the benchmarks are its own.
The brief: buyers are capping AI budgets and routing spend to cheaper Chinese open-weight models, just as OpenAI and Anthropic head for IPOs.
The year free models caught the frontier. The brief.
Alibaba's open-model juggernaut — what it is, why it dominates, and the 2026 shift.
Another open model from China, and this one's actually downloadable. The brief.
Europe's AI champion, repriced. The brief.
Cheap, capable, and not quite downloadable yet. The brief on what shipped and what to watch.
The brief: two MIT-licensed MoE models, 1M context, and the first DeepSeek architecture built for Huawei chips.
Open weights. One GPU. Aimed at ElevenLabs. The brief.