Open-Weight AI Coalition Draws a Line on Distillation
A new industry letter asks Washington to protect open-weight AI while separating legitimate distillation from alleged theft of closed models.
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Current AI Wants to Build a Free World Wide Web of AI
Backed by $400M, the nonprofit Current AI wants to build a free, public-interest AI stack modeled on the early Web. Here's who's funding it and what's shipping.
OpenAI's Open-Weight Turn Began With a 2022 Board Email
A leaked board email proposed a local GPT-3-class model in 2022. OpenAI's later gpt-oss release shows how that strategy changed.
Open-Weight Models Trail Closed Frontier on Cyber by 4-7 Months
UK AISI's July 17 evaluation finds GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro match closed frontier models from 4-7 months ago at a fraction of the cost.
Flint, Qwen3, and a Year of LLM Groupthink
A tiny Australian startup is fine-tuning a model to break ChatGPT-style groupthink. The 'Time is a river' problem is the symptom.
Open Source AI Wins: Five Frontier Models Ship in 30 Days
DeepSeek V4, Cohere Command A+, ZAYA1-8B, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 mark the busiest month for open-weight AI ever.
Local AI Showdown: The Best Open-Weight Models for Your Hardware in February 2026
A tier-by-tier comparison of the top open-weight LLMs you can run locally, from 8GB laptops to 24GB gaming GPUs to Apple Silicon Macs.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5: Open Weights With Caveats
Qwen 3.5 offers a 397B MoE flagship and smaller local models under Apache 2.0, but Alibaba's benchmarks need independent testing.