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An open-source AI model from China just matched OpenAI’s best at a third of the cost — forcing the world’s biggest labs to slash their prices

In January 2025, a Hangzhou-based AI lab called DeepSeek dropped a reasoning model that, by its own benchmarks, went ...
VentureBeat

Mistral launches powerful Devstral 2 coding model including open source, laptop-friendly version

French AI startup Mistral has weathered a rocky period of public questioning over the last year to emerge, now here in December 2025, with new, crowd-pleasing models for enterprise and indie ...
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Experts highlight open-source model to guide vibe coding

Industry analysis suggests that open-source development models could help address the challenges of 'vibe coding,' an emerging approach where AI-assisted modifications are made to software platforms.
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Kimi K2.6 Breakdown: the Open-Source AI That Beats GPT-5.4 at Coding

Moonshot AI’s latest release, Kimi K2.6, has emerged as a standout in the competitive world of AI-driven coding solutions. According to Universe of AI, this open source model has achieved remarkable ...
VentureBeat

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several ...
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Mistral AI’s Devstral 2 is an open-weights vibe coding model built to rival the best proprietary systems

French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is jumping into the vibe coding market with the launch of Devstral 2, a new model that’s built specifically to handle advanced coding tasks. Announced ...
Tech Times

AI Coding’s Discipline Turn: Three Open-Source Frameworks Superpowers, gstack, GSD Outpace Model Upgrades

Six months after Anthropic shipped a plugin system for Claude Code, the most-installed extensions on the platform have ...
TechCrunch

China’s Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent

China’s Moonshot AI, which is backed by the likes of Alibaba and HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), today released a new open source model, Kimi K2.5, which understands text, image, and video. The ...
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Google's Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI - even on phones

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
Mashable

Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-source model: How to try it

Google just released its newest AI model Gemma 4, which is now both open and open source. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google just released the latest version of its ...
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Best AI Models You Can Run Locally on Your Phone in 2026

Want AI on your phone without cloud limits? Models like Llama 3.2, Qwen3, Gemma 3, and SmolLM2 run locally for private chats, coding, reasoning, and image tasks. Llama 3.2 is the best all-rounder, ...