Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it "achieves comparable performance" to Inkling (Thinking Machines Lab)
Techmeme
· Jul 30, 2026
Thinking Machines released Inkling-Small, a 276B-parameter open-weight MoE model with 12B active parameters and claimed Inkling-level performance.
Frontis-MA1: Training an AI4AI Model towards Recursive Self-Improvement in Machine Learning Engineering
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 30, 2026
Frontis-MA1 and the OpenMLE stack target recursive improvement in machine-learning engineering through executable tasks, RL, and long-horizon program evolution.
llm 0.32rc1
Simon Willison
· Jul 30, 2026
LLM 0.32rc1 adds content-addressable message storage, enabling deduplication and forked conversation trees in the developer CLI.
Bagel Labs launches WorldDiT world model for robotics
TestingCatalog
· Jul 29, 2026
Bagel Labs released WorldDiT, an open-weight robotics world model for compact scene prediction using shared parameters.
DenseOn with the LateOn: Fully Open Dense and Late-Interaction Models for Multilingual, Long-Context, and Code Search
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 29, 2026
DenseOn and LateOn release fully open retrieval models and training data recipes for multilingual, long-context, and code search.
OpenAI releases an "early" version of the open-source Codex Security CLI for scanning repositories, verifying fixes, adding CI/CD security checks, and more (@openai)
Techmeme
· Jul 29, 2026
OpenAI released Codex Security CLI, an open-source tool for repository scanning, fix verification, and CI/CD security checks.
[AINews] Much ado about Open Weights
Latent Space
· Jul 28, 2026
Kimi K3 shipped as an open-weights model release amid broader debate over open model availability.
Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 27, 2026
Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter open MoE model with vision, million-token context, and improved scaling efficiency over Kimi K2.
The Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
Techmeme
· Jul 28, 2026
MCP adds stateless operation, stronger authentication, and formal deprecation rules, improving reliability for agent-tool integrations.
Causal-TS: A Python Library for Causal Discovery in High-Dimensional and Nonstationary Time Series
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 27, 2026
Bloomberg's Causal-TS is a pip-installable Python library for causal discovery in high-dimensional and nonstationary time series.
JarvisHub: An Open Harness for Canvas-Native Multimodal Creative Agents
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 26, 2026
JarvisHub provides an open harness for evaluating canvas-native multimodal creative agents across evolving project states.
OpenForgeRL: Train Harness-native Agents in Any Environment
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 23, 2026
OpenForgeRL introduces an open-source framework for end-to-end RL training of harness-based agents across stateful, tool-using environments.
DONDO: Open w2v-BERT Speech-Recognition Base Models for African Languages
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 23, 2026
DONDO releases permissively licensed w2v-BERT speech-recognition base models covering 27 African language varieties.
Poolside launches Laguna S 2.1, an 118B open-weight model built for agentic coding and long-horizon work, that it says competes with larger open models (Iain Martin/Forbes)
Techmeme
· Jul 21, 2026
Poolside released an 118B open-weight coding model aimed at agentic, long-horizon software work.
NVIDIA-labs OO Agents: Native Python Object-Oriented Agents
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 22, 2026
NVIDIA Object-Oriented Agents is a Python framework that represents agents as typed objects with methods, state, prompts, and contracts.
Petals: Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style
HN · LLMs
· Jul 23, 2026
Petals offers distributed LLM inference across home machines, making large-model execution possible through peer-to-peer resource sharing.
Cisco releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, two open-weight AI models to find known vulnerabilities within a codebase, and plans to release Antares-3B soon (Sam Sabin/Axios)
Techmeme
· Jul 21, 2026
Cisco released open-weight cybersecurity models for detecting known code vulnerabilities, with a larger Antares-3B model planned.
Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more (Block)
Techmeme
· Jul 21, 2026
Block released Buzz, an open source Nostr-based workspace for humans and AI agents to collaborate across messages, code, and workflows.
AgentDebugX: An Open-Source Toolkit for Failure Observability, Attribution, and Recovery in LLM Agents
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 21, 2026
AgentDebugX is an open-source toolkit for detecting, attributing, recovering, and rerunning failed LLM agent traces.
CircuitKIT : Circuit Discovery, Evaluation, and Application Toolkit for Mechanistic Interpretability
ArXiv · AI/CL/LG
· Jul 21, 2026
CircuitKIT is a source-available toolkit for discovering, evaluating, and applying circuits in mechanistic interpretability workflows.
AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
TechCrunch AI
· Jul 20, 2026
MCP tooling is improving, reducing integration friction for developers connecting AI systems to external services and data sources.
Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
Techmeme
· Jul 19, 2026
Alibaba open-sourced its AI chip software stack, advancing China’s effort to build CUDA alternatives for domestic GPU ecosystems.
Inkling: Our open-weights model
Simon Willison
· Jul 16, 2026
Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B-parameter Apache-2.0 open-weights multimodal MoE model and its first public model drop.
Audio-Visual Flamingo: Open Audio-Visual Intelligence for Long and Complex Videos
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 17, 2026
AV-Flamingo is a fully open audio-visual LLM for reasoning over long, complex videos with audio and visual context.
Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
HN · Frontpage AI
· Jul 16, 2026
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 as an open frontier model, drawing major developer attention for its claimed high-end capabilities.
[AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
Latent Space
· Jul 16, 2026
Thinky released Apache 2.0 open weights for Inkling, a large multimodal model positioned as a top U.S. open model.
Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
TechCrunch AI
· Jul 15, 2026
Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open model and first public technical artifact from the high-profile AI infrastructure startup.
Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
HN · Frontpage AI
· Jul 15, 2026
Inkling released an open-weights model, drawing strong early developer attention on Hacker News.
Open-AoE: An Open Egocentric Manipulation Dataset and Toolchain for Embodied Learning
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 15, 2026
Open-AoE releases a 2,000-hour egocentric manipulation dataset and toolchain for embodied learning and robot-training pipelines.
Boogu-Image-0.1: Boosting Open-Source Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 14, 2026
Boogu-Image-0.1 releases an open multimodal model family for image generation, editing, fast inference, and bilingual text rendering.
GigaChat Audio: Time-aware Large Audio Language Model
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 11, 2026
GigaChat Audio releases weights and datasets for a time-aware audio LLM supporting timestamped answers over two-hour recordings.
A Sovereign, Open-Source Foundation Model for German and English
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 10, 2026
Soofi S 30B-A3B is an open MoE hybrid Mamba-Transformer model targeting efficient German-English long-context deployment.
Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users
TechCrunch AI
· Jul 9, 2026
Ollama raised $65 million after becoming a major local AI runtime for developers with 176,000 GitHub stars.
SPEAR: A Simulator for Photorealistic Embodied AI Research
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 7, 2026
SPEAR is a programmable Unreal Engine simulator exposing thousands of functions for photorealistic embodied AI training and data generation.
tencent/Hy3
Simon Willison
· Jul 6, 2026
Tencent released Hy3, a 295B-parameter Apache 2.0 MoE model positioned against larger flagship open-source models.
Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B-parameter model that it says is competitive with GLM-5.1 and 5.2, under the Apache 2.0 license, following a preview launch in April (Sam Witteveen/VentureBeat)
Techmeme
· Jul 6, 2026
Tencent released Apache-licensed Hy3, a 295B-parameter open model it claims rivals GLM-5.1 and GLM-5.2.
Mistral releases Leanstral 1.5 open model for proof engineering
TestingCatalog
· Jul 4, 2026
Mistral released an open Lean 4 proof-engineering model with Hugging Face access and Labs API availability.
Gemma 4 Technical Report
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 2, 2026
Google introduces Gemma 4, an open-weight multimodal model family spanning dense and MoE architectures up to 31B parameters.
EVA-Client: A Unified Data Collection, Inference, and Deployment Framework for Embodied Policies on Real Robots
HF Daily Papers
· Jul 2, 2026
EVA-Client is an open-source framework for real-robot policy deployment, data collection, and evaluation.