Baidu announced last week that it would make its latest AI model — Ernie 4.5 — open-source from June 30. The news marks a reversal of Li's belief that large language models should not be open ...

Meta is promoting its new Llama 2 AI model as free and accessible to all. But there are restrictions. The Open Source Initiative is concerned over Meta's labeling. Meta called its license "bespoke ...

Ad-Blocker Ghostery Just Went Open Source—And Has a New Business Model. Snowden’s preferred ad-blocker details how a privacy tool can actually make money without being gross.

True, open-source models can be abused, like any other tech. But such thinking puts too much weight on the dangers of open-source AI and too little on the benefits.

Stability AI, the company behind the Stable Diffusion AI art tool, has released an open-source large language model it calls StableLM. Developers can adapt the model to create new tools and ...

Google’s new family of open-source AI models, Gemma, will be available to developers for language-based tasks, while its larger Gemini models remain closed source.

DeepSeek’s advances have roiled global stock markets and AI players. Now, its influence is spreading quickly at home, with some of China’s biggest tech companies, many of which had been ...

In a strategic push to strengthen its foothold in the generative AI space, Meta released the first models from its latest open-source AI suite, Llama 4, on Saturday.