The wire · open models
friday, september 4, 2026· 2 briefs
21:44 IFM open-sources a six-model AI fleet 21:40 Tripo AI raises $446M for 3D models monday, august 31, 2026· 1 brief
22:20 DeepSeek nears $7.4B round at $74B valuation sunday, august 30, 2026· 2 briefs
22:50 Cursor's cloud agents no longer need a repo 21:45 Tencent opens a 770B coding model friday, august 28, 2026· 1 brief
21:50 GLM-5.3's flagship weights are out tuesday, august 25, 2026· 2 briefs
22:00 Mistral bets big on Saudi sovereign AI 21:45 IBM's Granite 4.2 adds real reasoning tuesday, august 18, 2026· 1 brief
23:00 Modular open-sources the Mojo language saturday, august 15, 2026· 2 briefs
22:15 Grok 4.6 lands in GitHub Copilot 22:10 DeepSeek open-sources a Claude Code rival friday, august 14, 2026· 1 brief
21:45 Z.ai ships GLM-5.3, model found 1,097 bugs thursday, august 13, 2026· 4 briefs
23:10 Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max open weights finally land 23:00 DeepSeek V4 Pro exits preview at a higher price 22:40 Google ships Gemini 3.7 Flash for coding and agents 22:30 xAI ships Grok 4.6, built for longer agent runs tuesday, august 11, 2026· 4 briefs
22:25 n8n adds agent test runs and Discord chat 22:15 Mistral pushes sovereign AI infrastructure 22:10 Nvidia ships Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 21:50 River AI raises $1.1B for personal agents monday, august 10, 2026· 1 brief
21:45 Meta ships a 30B agent model for one GPU saturday, august 8, 2026· 1 brief
02:00 Kimi K3 is the 4th AI to escape a test friday, august 7, 2026· 1 brief
00:00 DeepMind open-sources a cyclone AI model tuesday, august 4, 2026· 2 briefs
22:40 Mistral's new model reads your safety policy at runtime 22:35 Nvidia opens up a robotaxi model that explains itself sunday, august 2, 2026· 1 brief
21:10 A hacker let DeepSeek attack on its own friday, july 31, 2026· 1 brief
03:00 DeepSeek V4-Flash exits preview, beats Pro wednesday, july 29, 2026· 2 briefs
22:55 Moonshot seeks more chips amid ban claims 22:05 Zuckerberg's counter to the AI pacing letter tuesday, july 28, 2026· 3 briefs
22:05 Liquid AI ships encoders that read both ways 21:55 Anthropic denies wanting an open-weights ban 21:50 MCP ships its biggest spec rewrite today sunday, july 26, 2026· 1 brief
22:00 Moonshot to open-source Kimi K3 weights saturday, july 25, 2026· 2 briefs
22:35 Report scores Kimi K3's cyber risk moderate 22:15 Moonshot AI plans pre-IPO round near $50B thursday, july 23, 2026· 1 brief
19:00 200 startups urge Trump: don't ban China AI monday, july 20, 2026· 1 brief
21:52 Alibaba previews Qwen3.8, a 2.4T model thursday, july 16, 2026· 1 brief
21:00 Moonshot launches Kimi K3, API-only for now wednesday, july 15, 2026· 1 brief
21:50 Murati's lab releases its first open model tuesday, july 14, 2026· 3 briefs
17:00 PrismML claims first 27B model on iPhone 03:05 Ollama v0.32.0 makes agent UI the default 02:31 Nous Research in talks for $75M round monday, july 13, 2026· 1 brief
20:00 Gemma 4 E2B lands on Pixel 10's Tensor chip saturday, july 11, 2026· 1 brief
21:30 NemoClaw cuts agent inference cost 10x thursday, july 9, 2026· 1 brief
21:30 Ollama raises $65M Series B tuesday, july 7, 2026· 3 briefs
12:00 Tencent releases Hy3, a free 295B open model 11:54 Gemini API agents gain background tasks, MCP 09:00 NVIDIA's open robot model lands in LeRobot friday, july 3, 2026· 4 briefs
19:04 Poolside releases Laguna XS 2.1 06:18 Miles opens PyTorch-native RL training 06:08 Z.ai ships ZCode, a GLM-5.2 coding app 06:00 Together AI raises $800M at $8.3B tuesday, june 30, 2026· 2 briefs
15:00 Meituan open-sources 1.6T coding model 03:00 Cerebras and HF bring Gemma 4 to voice AI monday, june 29, 2026· 1 brief
21:00 Open WebUI 0.10 ships computer agent mode saturday, june 27, 2026· 5 briefs
20:42 Liquid AI ships a 230M on-device model 14:50 Qwen releases an open agent world model 14:46 DeepSeek open-sources DeepSpec decoder 08:41 Ornith ships four open coding models 08:38 Ollama adds Claude Code auto-install friday, june 26, 2026· 1 brief
20:39 Un-0 makes images with coupled oscillators friday, june 19, 2026· 1 brief
08:45 US developers turn to cheaper Chinese AI wednesday, june 17, 2026· 1 brief
19:40 GLM-5.2 tops open-weights AI leaderboard monday, june 15, 2026· 1 brief
19:36 Sarvam becomes India's newest AI unicorn saturday, june 13, 2026· 2 briefs
04:16 Kimi K2.7-Code ships with leaner reasoning 04:10 DeepMind's DiffusionGemma is 4x faster