MiniMax, an AI firm based in Shanghai, has released an open source reasoning model that challenges Chinese rival DeepSeek and US-based Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google in terms of performance and cost.… ...

ETH Zurich and EPFL’s open-weight LLM offers a transparent alternative to black-box AI built on green compute and set for public release. Large language models (LLMs), which are neural networks that ...

If mHC scales the way early benchmarks suggest, it could reshape how we think about model capacity, compute budgets and the ...

For much of 2025, the frontier of open-weight language models has been defined not in Silicon Valley or New York City, but in Beijing and Hangzhou. Now, one small U.S. company is pushing back. Today, ...

Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a bit of Amazon) along with their model makers of choice, ...

Python project from Andrew Ng provides a streamlined approach to working with multiple LLM providers, addressing a significant pain point in the AI development workflow. The proliferation of large ...

Deep Cogito, a lesser-known AI research startup based in San Francisco founded by ex-Googlers, has released four new open-ish large language models (LLMs) that attempt something few others do: ...

The Indian technological space has been blowing up in February 2026, even as the India AI Impact Summit 2026 was underway in ...

I’ve been writing about the democratic future of large language models (LLMs). Will this tech turn out to be an inherently centralized, authoritarian technology like nuclear power, or a more ...