Facebook Research unveils Tuna-2, a groundbreaking multimodal AI model that ditches traditional vision encoders in favor of direct pixel patch processing, outperforming predecessors on diverse benchmarks while supporting both image understanding and generation tasks in 7B and 2B parameter sizes.
SAP acquires Prior Labs in a €1 billion deal to build Europe's leading frontier AI lab, combining the startup's groundbreaking Tabular Foundation Models with SAP's enterprise data and AI infrastructure to deliver instant, top-performing machine learning capabilities at scale.
A free app called Locally AI is turning heads by running powerful AI models like Llama, DeepSeek, and Gemma entirely on-device across iPhone, iPad, and Mac — with no internet, no login, and zero data collection, all powered by Apple Silicon.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue warns that anti-open-source lobbying in the US risks handing AI dominance to a handful of corporations, as the global developer base is projected to surge from millions to 100 million builders and AI agents may soon outnumber human users on the platform.
DeepSeek unleashes two groundbreaking AI models — DeepSeek-V4-Pro and V4-Flash — featuring over 1 trillion parameters and record-breaking low prices, with V4-Flash undercutting OpenAI's cheapest model at just $0.14 per million tokens, powered by dramatic efficiency gains that slash compute costs to a fraction of its predecessor.
OpenClaw, a self-hosted AI agent platform, rockets to 250,000 GitHub stars in just 60 days, overtaking React as GitHub's most-starred project while NVIDIA rushes to address security vulnerabilities by launching NemoClaw, a hardened reference implementation, as autonomous long-running agents drive a 1,000x surge in inference demand and reshape industries from …
IBM launches Granite 4.1, its most expansive AI model family yet, featuring small language, vision, speech, embedding, and safety models built for enterprise use, all released under an Apache 2.0 license with state-of-the-art performance across document understanding, multilingual transcription, and harm detection.
Millions of self-hosted LLM users are squandering their local AI's true power by treating it like a basic chatbot, when it can instead serve as a silent, privacy-first backend engine capable of automating workflows, controlling smart home systems, and managing entire tasks autonomously without cloud dependency or rate limits.
Cisco launches its Model Provenance Kit, a 'DNA test for AI models' that generates unique fingerprints to verify origins and detect tampering, targeting growing supply chain threats in enterprise AI deployments.
Chip Huyen's GitHub repository 'aie-book,' supporting her 2025 O'Reilly book 'AI Engineering,' surpasses 15,400 stars and 2,200 forks, offering developers a comprehensive hub covering prompt engineering, RAG, agent building, finetuning, and hallucination mitigation for foundation model development.