Your Ray-Ban Meta alternative is open-source, and that changes everything

Mentra Live is a Ray-Ban Meta alternative with a rare perk, an open-source OS and a MiniApp Store. It’s limited-run, ...

This Filmmaker Couldn’t Get an Interview With the CEO of OpenAI. He Created a Bot Version Instead

Deepfaking Sam Altman,' the new documentary from filmmaker Adam Bhala Lough, satirically probes the potential benefits and ethical perils of AI ...

Open Source Al Video is Here LTX-2 : Speech, Ambiance & Motion on Consumer GPUs

LTX-2 is an open source AI video model with 14B video and 15B audio parameters, giving you synced clips and local control.

Nvidia launches Alpamayo, open AI models that allow autonomous vehicles to ‘think like a human’

Nvidia unveiled Alpamayo at CES 2026, which includes a reasoning vision language action model that allows an autonomous ...
GeekWire

Allen Institute for AI rivals Google, Meta and OpenAI with open-source AI vision model

A demo video from Ai2 shows Molmo tracking a specific ball in this cat video, even when it goes out of frame. (Allen Institute for AI Video) How many penguins are in this wildlife video? Can you track ...
VentureBeat

Ai2’s Molmo 2 shows open-source models can rival proprietary giants in video understanding

Fresh off releasing the latest version of its Olmo foundation model, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) launched its open-source video model, Molmo 2, on Tuesday, aiming to show that smaller, open ...
Reuters

Nvidia unveils new open-source AI models amid boom in Chinese offerings

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab on Monday unveiled a new family of open-source artificial intelligence models that it says will be faster, cheaper and smarter than its ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Inside Meta’s Pivot From Open Source to Money-Making AI Model

He’s likened Meta’s open-source approach for AI to Google’s Android operating system for smartphones. While Meta already builds some closed models for internal use, and Zuckerberg has teased the idea ...
The Verge

Microsoft makes Zork open-source.

The original Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III games are now available under the MIT license. Microsoft, Xbox, and Activision have teamed up to preserve the clever Z-Machine engine that powered the Zork ...
Wired

The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China

Since 2022, America has had a solid lead in artificial intelligence thanks to advanced models from high-flying companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI. A growing number of experts, ...
ZDNet

I found an open-source NotebookLM alternative that's powerful, private - and free

Open Notebook is an open-source take on NotebookLM. Open Notebook can be installed and used for free. You do have to understand Linux and containers to deploy it. NotebookLM has become an incredibly ...
VentureBeat

Meta returns to open source AI with Omnilingual ASR models that can transcribe 1,600+ languages natively

Meta has just released a new multilingual automatic speech recognition (ASR) system supporting 1,600+ languages — dwarfing OpenAI’s open source Whisper model, which supports just 99. Is architecture ...