Black Forest Labs launches open source Flux.2 [klein] to generate AI images in less than a second

Credit: VentureBeat made with Flux.2 [klein] on Fal.ai The German AI startup Black Forest Labs (BFL), founded by former ...
Wired

The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China

Since 2022, America has had a solid lead in artificial intelligence thanks to advanced models from high-flying companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI. A growing number of experts, ...
The Economist

A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI

There are two sides to the software industry. One faces outwards, with whizzy products and services that bring in billions of dollars of revenue for trillion-dollar companies. The other faces inwards, ...
NBC Chicago

DeepSeek's breakthrough emboldens open-source AI models like Meta's Llama

DeepSeek's powerful new artificial intelligence model isn't just a win for China — it's a victory for open-source versions of the tech from the likes of Meta, Databricks, Mistral and Hugging Face, ...
VentureBeat

Why open-source AI became an American national priority

When President Trump released the U.S. AI Action Plan last week, many were surprised to see “encourage open-source and open-weight AI,” as one of the administration’s top priorities. The White House ...
The Diplomat

China Now Dominates Open Source AI. How Much Does That Matter?

U.S. AI models still control over 70 percent of the market, but a collaborative, open source approach has enabled Chinese labs to punch far above their weight. U.S. AI models still control over 70 ...
TechCrunch

Meta built its AI reputation on openness — that may be changing

Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model, reports The New York Times.