Startups
Writer Claims Palmyra X6 Cuts Enterprise AI Costs by 50%
TechCrunch AI · Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Writer launched Palmyra X6 on Thursday, a flagship model the company says will cut customer costs by as much as 50% for...
Topic: open-source-models
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Explore our coverage of open-source-models — 22 curated articles, summaries, and related resources from the Inblix archive.
AI News
Mistral’s Shieldstral shrinks content moderation to a single yes/no question and a 16GB footprint
MarkTechPost · Aug 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Mistral just open-sourced a safety model that treats content moderation like a bouncer with a clipboard, not a philosop...
AI News
Liquid AI's 350M encoder beats 3.5B giants on CPU, costs grow slower with input
MarkTechPost · Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Liquid AI just dropped two open-weight encoder models that punch far above their weight class and are built for the rea...
AI News
ASR leaderboard scores are misleading — here's what actually matters when picking a model in 2026
MarkTechPost · Jul 23, 2026 · 2 min read
The Open ASR Leaderboard is no longer a ranking you can trust at face value. The top models — Cohere Transcribe, IBM Gr...
AI News
Trump team crafts quiet kill switch for Chinese AI models
The Decoder · Jul 20, 2026 · 2 min read
The Trump administration isn't drafting a splashy executive order to ban Chinese AI outright. Instead, Axios reports th...
AI News
China's Moonshot and Alibaba Claim They've Caught OpenAI
The Verge AI · Jul 20, 2026 · 2 min read
Beijing is done playing catch-up. Over a single weekend, two Chinese heavyweights dropped AI models they claim rival th...
AI News
Feyn's SQRL-35B model edges Claude Opus by inspecting databases before writing SQL
MarkTechPost · Jul 19, 2026 · 3 min read
Most text-to-SQL systems treat the task like translation: turn a question into a query and hope for the best. The probl...
Research
Hugging Face hacked by swarm of AI agents; safety filters blocked its own defenders
Hugging Face Blog · Jul 16, 2026 · 2 min read
Hugging Face disclosed a July 2026 security breach where an autonomous AI agent swarm broke into its data-processing pi...
Research
Thinking Machines drops Inkling: a 975B-param open model that sees, hears, and reads
Hugging Face Blog · Jul 15, 2026 · 2 min read
Forget the single-mode giants. Thinking Machines just put Inkling on Hugging Face, and it’s not just another large lang...
AI News
Soofi S: The 30B German moe model that spanks 70B rivals
The Decoder · Jul 13, 2026 · 3 min read
A German research consortium just dropped Soofi S, and the benchmarks make a loud statement: you don't need a massive,...
Product
OpenAI drops open-weight reasoning models for safety
OpenAI Blog · Jul 12, 2026 · 2 min read
OpenAI just released a research preview of two open-weight models built specifically for safety classification, and the...
Research
Six new open-source AI rerankers just dropped, hitting state-of-the-art accuracy at every size
Hugging Face Blog · May 19, 2026 · 2 min read
A new family of six open-source cross-encoder rerankers, all built on the ModernBERT architecture, is now available and...
Research
Claude taught open models to write GPU kernels, but most flunked the test
Hugging Face Blog · Jan 28, 2026 · 2 min read
Here's a truth the 'democratize AI' crowd doesn't like to admit: giving a smaller model a cheat sheet written by a geni...
Research
ServiceNow drops an 8B-param guard model built to spot attacks that regex filters miss
Hugging Face Blog · Dec 23, 2025 · 2 min read
ServiceNow's research team just open-sourced AprielGuard, an 8 billion-parameter model designed to be the safety classi...
Research
Scaleway Brings Sub-200ms AI Inference to Hugging Face, Starting at €0.20/M Tokens
Hugging Face Blog · Sep 19, 2025 · 2 min read
Hugging Face just got a serious European hardware upgrade. Scaleway is now a supported Inference Provider on the Hub, w...
Research
Writer drops 1.5B reasoning models that beat benchmarks, not your GPU
Hugging Face Blog · Sep 11, 2025 · 2 min read
Writer just dropped a trio of tiny open models that punch well above their weight class. The Palmyra-mini family consis...
Research
A tiny 0.6B model just crushed formal math proofs, topping the MiniF2F leaderboard
Hugging Face Blog · Aug 14, 2025 · 2 min read
A new open-source training recipe is producing absurdly strong theorem-proving models that fit on a laptop. The team be...
Research
NVIDIA's 49B Nemotron Just Topped the DeepResearch Bench—and It Runs on a Single GPU
Hugging Face Blog · Aug 4, 2025 · 2 min read
The open-source agent stack just got a new leader. NVIDIA’s AI-Q blueprint, a portable deep research agent, has climbed...
Research
Groq's LPU chips land on Hugging Face, bringing sub-100ms inference to open models
Hugging Face Blog · Jun 16, 2025 · 2 min read
The wait for truly fast, on-demand open-source AI just got shorter. Groq, the inference provider that famously eschews...
Research
Falcon-H1 Packs 7B-Class Punch Into a 0.5B Model Using a Hybrid Attention-SSM Brain
Hugging Face Blog · May 21, 2025 · 2 min read
The Falcon-H1 family dropped today, and it’s a direct challenge to the idea that bigger models are the only path to bet...
Research
IBM and top schools drop Bamba-9B, a hybrid model with 2.5x faster inference
Hugging Face Blog · Dec 18, 2024 · 2 min read
The memory-bandwidth nightmare of the KV-cache just got a new challenger. Bamba-9B, a hybrid Mamba2 model forged in a c...
Research
Cohere's Aya Expanse 8B beats models twice its size by pitting teacher AIs against each other
Hugging Face Blog · Oct 24, 2024 · 2 min read
Cohere For AI just dropped the Aya Expanse family, and the 32B model is punching so far above its weight class that it'...