Nvidia released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free open-weight model covering up to 40 languages, plus version 2 of its open source Granary speech dataset. It handles hour-long recordings and up to eight speakers, but works only on recorded audio, not livestreams.
— via TechCrunch, Julie Bort
Meta has released a new open source model, and in a surprise move it is working with Apple so the model can run locally on your own device. The partnership is the unexpected part: the two companies rarely line up on anything.
— via Stratechery, Ben Thompson
Within two weeks of launch, 35% of paid teams on Vercel were using Jev, nearly double its closest rival and the fastest adoption any model has hit in that window. The data also shows open source models now processing over 70% of tokens through Vercel's gateway, even as frontier spending grows tenfold.
— via TechCrunch, Russell Brandom
A startup pitching at Disrupt this week plans to open-source the AI database it built to keep CRM records clean, with release targeted for early 2027 pending security checks. Floqer says revenue has grown roughly tenfold in a year, past $1.2 million ARR, after pivoting from a Chrome extension once used mainly to tidy up messy customer data.
— via TechCrunch, Lauren Forristal
Reflection AI's new open model, Beam, matches China's GLM-5.2 on reasoning benchmarks while using 3-4x less inference compute, the startup claims. The $25 billion-valued company, backed by $4.7 billion from Nvidia and others, is betting enterprises want a Western alternative to DeepSeek and Qwen.
— via TechCrunch, Rebecca Bellan
Meta is letting developers wire its Muse AI into Raspberry Pis, ESP32 boards and e-ink screens with new open-source firmware. It already built 5,000 free USB-C "Home Link" gadgets that connect Muse to smart speakers and TVs, and they're likely already claimed.
— via TechCrunch, Kirsten Korosec
China blocked Hugging Face in 2023, yet regulators quietly let domestic AI labs dodge the firewall to keep sharing models globally. The gap birthed rivals like Alibaba's ModelScope, now hosting over 170,000 models, and OSChina's MoArk.
— via Rest of World, Viola Zhou
Saudi Arabia's new Arabic AI model runs on Chinese open-source tech from MiniMax, even as the kingdom builds its computing infrastructure with Nvidia and other U.S. firms. Brazil, Latin America and Central Asia are making the same split bet, buying American chips while running Chinese models, a hedge that's complicating Washington's tech rivalry with Beijing.
— via Rest of World, Kinling Lo
