PAN 2 world model: hardware, licensing and limits
bytefwd.com — PAN 2 offers open weights and training code for action simulation. Examine its hardware needs, licensing scope, benchmarks and practical limitations.
Open-Weight Models
Open-weight models are artificial intelligence systems whose downloadable parameter weights are publicly distributed for research and deployment. Truncated covers their licensing terms, fine-tuning practices, security evaluations and releases.
TIER IV Details Five Open-Source Models for Autonomous Driving
www.unite.ai — TIER IV announced on November 11, 2026, the development and open-source availability of five end-to-end autonomous-driving AI models for Autoware, spanning camera-only systems and configurations that add LiDAR, radar and...
Genspark and Baseten Applied Research post-trained an open-weight model that beats Opus 5.5 at deep research.
Ollama
techspot.com — Ollama makes it easy to run today's most popular open AI models locally.
NaiveAI Promises 2,100 Tokens per Second. How Well Does It Code?
Latent Space — NaiveAI could potentially top Artificial Analysis’s speed rankings. Our hands-on test suggests its coding quality holds up against DeepSeek.
4K image generation in 10 seconds!
Private AI Needs Infrastructure That Can Evolve With the Workload
www.unite.ai — Two years ago, almost every enterprise I talked to assumed AI meant calling a frontier model through an API. That assumption is breaking down. Open-weight models have gotten good enough for a lot of day-to-day work, and...
China's 5,000-hour dataset gives robots a shared sense of touch
interestingengineering.com — Robbyant open-sources LingBot-Touch, an AI model that helps robots interpret touch across different sensors.
It's here!
Tear Down Those Guardrails! Meet the Renegades Freeing Chatbots From Corporate Enslavers
WIRED — The “abliterators” are flooding the internet with AI models that never say no, making it easier for people to improve their cyberdefenses—or build a bomb.
How to run open models in production without owning the serving stack
NVIDIA Dynamo Recipes Bring Korea’s Leading Open Models to Production
blogs.nvidia.com — NVIDIA is releasing Dynamo-optimized deployment recipes for Korea’s leading open models.
I replaced Gemini and ChatGPT on my phone with my gaming PC’s 26B model, and the app that does it is free
www.xda-developers.com — Farewell, bloated AI apps!
A Forgotten 1950 Rain Formula, And The Open AI That Only Picks
brianroemmele.substack.com — FEBRUARY 1950
The gap between open and closed AI models in cyber capabilities keeps shrinking
The Decoder — In the Vals AI benchmark, OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol Daybreak hits 80.8 percent of attack objectives in simulated corporate networks. Worse, the open-weight model DeepSeek V4.1 Flash reaches 72.8 percent at a tenth of the cost. Because open models can no longer be restricted, analysts say the window for defenders is shrinking fast.
State propaganda in some Chinese AI models is only "a thin layer" that fine-tuning can strip away
The Decoder — Nous Research retrained Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B to produce Arete-27B, largely stripping out its pro-Chinese bias. The propaganda rate dropped from 22 percent to less than one percent, while general capabilities remained intact in tests. The method relied on 53 million tokens of supervised fine-tuning. The political bias is "applied late, it is applied thin," the team writes.
Kimi K3.1 Pro (Highspeed) now available on Amazon Bedrock - AWS
Free Chinese AI Models Are Getting Scary Good at Hacking
WIRED — An experiment in which AI models were asked to break into simulated networks showed the hacking skills of DeepSeek and GLM to be not far behind OpenAI’s most advanced cyber model, which isn’t public.
Nace AI has published a 51-page report on how it trained Drex, its family of open-weight AI models that pick the most l…
Thinking Machines' new model takes the lead in western open-weight AI
ZDNET — Another competitive model developed outside of China could change the open-weight landscape.
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