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DeepSeek, Mistral, and Qwen release new open-source AI models, each claiming advantages in speed, sovereignty, and versatility.
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DeepSeek, Mistral, and Qwen release new open-source AI models, each claiming advantages in speed, sovereignty, and versatility.

Anthropic's Guillaume Princen highlights cybersecurity risks in open-weight AI models, as competition grows ahead of its IPO.

OpenAI and Anthropic lawyers highlight risks of bad actors using open-source AI models, urging government and industry action.

OpenAI and Anthropic are cutting prices by 30% as large customers switch to cheaper open-source AI models.

Mistral AI partners with Mozilla to bring private, multilingual AI browsing to Firefox Smart Window, launching in France and North America.

Nvidia licenses AI models from Poolside for $6B, invests $1B, valuing the startup at $12B pre-money.

NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face, the 'GitHub of AI', for $12.9 billion, a major move to expand open-source AI ecosystem.

Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest in Mercor at a $20B valuation, doubling its October valuation, to support its open-source Nemotron models.

The White House plans to expand its AI regulatory framework to include open-source models from Meta, Mistral, and others.

David Sacks accuses Anthropic of stifling competition by restricting open-source AI models, risking US innovation.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang advocates for open-source AI models, highlighting DeepSeek and Kimi K3 in his first X post.

Microsoft and 25 tech firms urge US policymakers to support open-source AI, citing economic and security benefits.

Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei advocates for AI regulation that critics say could entrench his company and harm smaller competitors.

Portugal launches AMALIA, a 9B-parameter open-source AI model, to secure autonomy over AI technology as a public good.