Open Source

8 stories in the last two weeks

Sam Learner / Financial Times ·

Users of AI coding tools are flooding open-source projects with low-quality contributions, overwhelming maintainers and potentially eroding community engagement

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web's unsung human caretakers. If you are reading the digital version …

Juro Osawa / The Information ·

MiniMax is working on a 2.7T-parameter model internally called M3 Pro, which it could release as early as Q3 as open source; M3 has 428B parameters

Chinese AI developer MiniMax is working on a new large language model with 2.7 trillion parameters, larger than any other Chinese AI models currently …

Sam Witteveen / VentureBeat ·

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

For the past year, the awkward secret of the open-weight model boom has been that many of the strongest Chinese releases …

Niko Gallogly / New York Times ·

Together AI, which offers access to open-source models, raised $800M led by Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 at an $8.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $1.3B

Together AI, which specializes in open-source artificial intelligence models, is now worth more than $8 billion.

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE ·

Cybersecurity company Aikido Security acquires Root, which has raised about $37.6M and develops an AI platform for securing open-source components

Belgian cybersecurity company Aikido Security NV today announced that it has acquired Root.io Inc., a company that offers patching …

Reuters ·

Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details

China's food delivery giant Meituan (3690.HK) said on Tuesday it had released and would open-source its next-generation LongCat …

Julie Bort / TechCrunch ·

Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own

Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark …

Lily Hay Newman / Wired ·

OpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more

Amid concerns about AI models' cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its "Patch the Planet" …

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