Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

Mistral AI and the Allen Institute for AI today released new large language models that they claim are among the most advanced in their respective categories. Mistral’s model is called Mistral Small 3 ...

LiteLLM allows developers to integrate a diverse range of LLM models as if they were calling OpenAI’s API, with support for fallbacks, budgets, rate limits, and real-time monitoring of API calls. The ...

The release of Deepseek v3.1 signifies a major advancement in the realm of large language models (LLMs). This open source AI model, licensed under MIT, introduces a powerful 700GB mixture of experts ...

On January 20, 2025, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled R1, an open-source large language model (LLM) that is redefining industry expectations. Designed to offer performance on par with proprietary ...

Understanding precisely how the output of a large language model (LLM) matches with training data has long been a mystery and a challenge for enterprise IT. A new open-source effort launched this week ...

Qwen 2.5 Coder/Max is currently the top open-source model for coding, with the highest HumanEval (~70–72%), LiveCodeBench (70.7), and Elo (2056) scores among open models. DeepSeek V3/Coder V2 remains ...

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If a piece of software is available under a license rubber stamped as “open source” ...

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, ...

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 ...