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  1. 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 ·
    Thinking Machines released Inkling-Small, a 276B-parameter open-weight MoE model with 12B active parameters and claimed Inkling-level performance.
  2. Frontis-MA1: Training an AI4AI Model towards Recursive Self-Improvement in Machine Learning Engineering
    HF Daily Papers ·
    Frontis-MA1 and the OpenMLE stack target recursive improvement in machine-learning engineering through executable tasks, RL, and long-horizon program evolution.
  3. llm 0.32rc1
    Simon Willison ·
    LLM 0.32rc1 adds content-addressable message storage, enabling deduplication and forked conversation trees in the developer CLI.
  4. Bagel Labs launches WorldDiT world model for robotics
    TestingCatalog ·
    Bagel Labs released WorldDiT, an open-weight robotics world model for compact scene prediction using shared parameters.
  5. DenseOn with the LateOn: Fully Open Dense and Late-Interaction Models for Multilingual, Long-Context, and Code Search
    ArXiv · AI/CL/LG ·
    DenseOn and LateOn release fully open retrieval models and training data recipes for multilingual, long-context, and code search.
  6. 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 ·
    OpenAI released Codex Security CLI, an open-source tool for repository scanning, fix verification, and CI/CD security checks.
  7. [AINews] Much ado about Open Weights
    Latent Space ·
    Kimi K3 shipped as an open-weights model release amid broader debate over open model availability.
  8. Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
    HF Daily Papers ·
    Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter open MoE model with vision, million-token context, and improved scaling efficiency over Kimi K2.
  9. 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 ·
    MCP adds stateless operation, stronger authentication, and formal deprecation rules, improving reliability for agent-tool integrations.
  10. Causal-TS: A Python Library for Causal Discovery in High-Dimensional and Nonstationary Time Series
    ArXiv · AI/CL/LG ·
    Bloomberg's Causal-TS is a pip-installable Python library for causal discovery in high-dimensional and nonstationary time series.
  11. JarvisHub: An Open Harness for Canvas-Native Multimodal Creative Agents
    HF Daily Papers ·
    JarvisHub provides an open harness for evaluating canvas-native multimodal creative agents across evolving project states.
  12. OpenForgeRL: Train Harness-native Agents in Any Environment
    HF Daily Papers ·
    OpenForgeRL introduces an open-source framework for end-to-end RL training of harness-based agents across stateful, tool-using environments.
  13. DONDO: Open w2v-BERT Speech-Recognition Base Models for African Languages
    ArXiv · AI/CL/LG ·
    DONDO releases permissively licensed w2v-BERT speech-recognition base models covering 27 African language varieties.
  14. 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 ·
    Poolside released an 118B open-weight coding model aimed at agentic, long-horizon software work.
  15. NVIDIA-labs OO Agents: Native Python Object-Oriented Agents
    HF Daily Papers ·
    NVIDIA Object-Oriented Agents is a Python framework that represents agents as typed objects with methods, state, prompts, and contracts.
  16. Petals: Run LLMs at home, BitTorrent-style
    HN · LLMs ·
    Petals offers distributed LLM inference across home machines, making large-model execution possible through peer-to-peer resource sharing.
  17. 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 ·
    Cisco released open-weight cybersecurity models for detecting known code vulnerabilities, with a larger Antares-3B model planned.
  18. 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 ·
    Block released Buzz, an open source Nostr-based workspace for humans and AI agents to collaborate across messages, code, and workflows.
  19. AgentDebugX: An Open-Source Toolkit for Failure Observability, Attribution, and Recovery in LLM Agents
    HF Daily Papers ·
    AgentDebugX is an open-source toolkit for detecting, attributing, recovering, and rerunning failed LLM agent traces.
  20. CircuitKIT : Circuit Discovery, Evaluation, and Application Toolkit for Mechanistic Interpretability
    ArXiv · AI/CL/LG ·
    CircuitKIT is a source-available toolkit for discovering, evaluating, and applying circuits in mechanistic interpretability workflows.
  21. AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
    TechCrunch AI ·
    MCP tooling is improving, reducing integration friction for developers connecting AI systems to external services and data sources.
  22. 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 ·
    Alibaba open-sourced its AI chip software stack, advancing China’s effort to build CUDA alternatives for domestic GPU ecosystems.
  23. Inkling: Our open-weights model
    Simon Willison ·
    Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B-parameter Apache-2.0 open-weights multimodal MoE model and its first public model drop.
  24. Audio-Visual Flamingo: Open Audio-Visual Intelligence for Long and Complex Videos
    HF Daily Papers ·
    AV-Flamingo is a fully open audio-visual LLM for reasoning over long, complex videos with audio and visual context.
  25. Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
    HN · Frontpage AI ·
    Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 as an open frontier model, drawing major developer attention for its claimed high-end capabilities.
  26. [AINews] Thinky's Inkling: 975B-A41B multimodal, new best American Apache 2.0 open model (with Inkling-Small, 276B-A12B)
    Latent Space ·
    Thinky released Apache 2.0 open weights for Inkling, a large multimodal model positioned as a top U.S. open model.
  27. Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
    TechCrunch AI ·
    Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open model and first public technical artifact from the high-profile AI infrastructure startup.
  28. Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
    HN · Frontpage AI ·
    Inkling released an open-weights model, drawing strong early developer attention on Hacker News.
  29. Open-AoE: An Open Egocentric Manipulation Dataset and Toolchain for Embodied Learning
    HF Daily Papers ·
    Open-AoE releases a 2,000-hour egocentric manipulation dataset and toolchain for embodied learning and robot-training pipelines.
  30. Boogu-Image-0.1: Boosting Open-Source Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
    HF Daily Papers ·
    Boogu-Image-0.1 releases an open multimodal model family for image generation, editing, fast inference, and bilingual text rendering.
  31. GigaChat Audio: Time-aware Large Audio Language Model
    HF Daily Papers ·
    GigaChat Audio releases weights and datasets for a time-aware audio LLM supporting timestamped answers over two-hour recordings.
  32. A Sovereign, Open-Source Foundation Model for German and English
    HF Daily Papers ·
    Soofi S 30B-A3B is an open MoE hybrid Mamba-Transformer model targeting efficient German-English long-context deployment.
  33. Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users
    TechCrunch AI ·
    Ollama raised $65 million after becoming a major local AI runtime for developers with 176,000 GitHub stars.
  34. SPEAR: A Simulator for Photorealistic Embodied AI Research
    HF Daily Papers ·
    SPEAR is a programmable Unreal Engine simulator exposing thousands of functions for photorealistic embodied AI training and data generation.
  35. tencent/Hy3
    Simon Willison ·
    Tencent released Hy3, a 295B-parameter Apache 2.0 MoE model positioned against larger flagship open-source models.
  36. 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 ·
    Tencent released Apache-licensed Hy3, a 295B-parameter open model it claims rivals GLM-5.1 and GLM-5.2.
  37. Mistral releases Leanstral 1.5 open model for proof engineering
    TestingCatalog ·
    Mistral released an open Lean 4 proof-engineering model with Hugging Face access and Labs API availability.
  38. Gemma 4 Technical Report
    HF Daily Papers ·
    Google introduces Gemma 4, an open-weight multimodal model family spanning dense and MoE architectures up to 31B parameters.
  39. EVA-Client: A Unified Data Collection, Inference, and Deployment Framework for Embodied Policies on Real Robots
    HF Daily Papers ·
    EVA-Client is an open-source framework for real-robot policy deployment, data collection, and evaluation.