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Open source and AI: open models, tools and the communities challenging the closed labs – and what it means for developers and users.

Here we collect everything we have published under Open Source: news, analysis and explainers from the world of AI. The page is updated whenever a new story is published.

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Illustration: Two clustered stacks of brushed-aluminum computers joined by a single thick cobalt cable, evoking the Apple–Meta partnership.Illustrasjon
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Oct 15, 2026 · 4 min

Apple and Meta Team Up: Meta's 816-Billion-Parameter Open AI Model Runs on Clustered Mac Studios

Apple and Meta, longtime bitter rivals, announced a partnership on Thursday, October 15, 2026, that lets developers run Meta's new open AI model, Muse Spark Open, locally on Apple's powerful desktop Macs.

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Illustration: a massive steel structure connected by a red cable to a small desktop computer on a desk, depicting a giant model running locally.Illustrasjon
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Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min

Meta releases 816-billion-parameter model – it already runs locally on Mac Studio

Meta this week released the weights for Muse Spark Open, a multimodal language model with over 800 billion parameters — and Apple's researchers have already shown it can run on a desk, not in a data centre.

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Illustration: green wooden bars of varying heights on paper, one snapped and lying flat – a visual commentary on self-reported benchmark figures without independent verification.Illustrasjon
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Oct 15, 2026 · 6 min

NVIDIA's Super VL: 28–72 Percent on Medical Benchmarks After Post-Training – Without Independent Verification

On October 15, 2026, NVIDIA released the open, multimodal agent model Nemotron 3.5 Super VL alongside two Bolt models. The company's benchmark chart reportedly shows that specialized post-trained versions beat Claude Opus 5 and GPT-6.1 Sol…

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Illustration: a long blank paper ribbon unrolls from a compact box and stretches out of frame, evoking a long context window in an open language model.Illustrasjon
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Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min

Apertus 1.5: open models with 262,144-token context — four times longer than before

The Swiss AI Initiative has updated its open language models with image and audio understanding, an optional thinking mode, and a context window four times as long as before.

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A large heavy metal sphere rests on a concrete floor in an empty industrial hall beside an open unlocked cage door – an illustration of a heavy AI model whose weights are soon to be released openly.Illustrasjon
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Oct 6, 2026 · 7 min

Mistral Promises Open-Weight Release of ML4 on October 27 – Benchmarks Still Unverified

Mistral AI unveiled ML4, nicknamed "Le Chonk," in public preview on Tuesday – and promised to release the model weights on October 27. The launch came one day after the American company Reflection AI announced its open Beam model, and just…

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Illustration: a massive stone cube with its lid lifted open, revealing layered strata inside, as a metaphor for a large open language model with one trillion parameters.Illustrasjon
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Oct 6, 2026 · 6 min

"Le Chonk": Mistral's new trillion-parameter model is the strongest open model outside China — but only eighth overall

On October 6, 2026, the Paris-based company Mistral AI launched a public preview of Mistral Large 4, a multimodal model with roughly one trillion parameters and the code name "Le Chonk".

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Illustration: A hummingbird sculpture assembled from metal weights, its cage door open with some weights lifted free, in a restrained editorial palette.Illustrasjon
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Oct 5, 2026 · 7 min

Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri-1: An Open-Weight Model With 78.1 Billion Parameters, Free on Hugging Face

The German company Aleph Alpha released Kolibri-1 on October 3, 2026, an open-weight model with weights published on Hugging Face under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Illustration: dozens of thin copper wires routed through a small lattice of brass gates, only a few exiting densely packed — a metaphor for mixture-of-experts routing and high training throughput.Illustrasjon
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Oct 2, 2026 · 6 min

Ai2 launches Olmo-core 3: Open MoE framework reports 2.7 times higher throughput

Ai2 has launched Olmo-core 3, an open-source framework for training large mixture-of-experts models. The company's own measurements show roughly 2.7 times higher training throughput and configurations beyond a trillion parameters — but…

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Illustration: a row of identical ceramic slots, one holding a precision brass gauge whose notches fit exactly — a metaphor for decision models returning typed values instead of free-form text.Illustrasjon
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Oct 2, 2026 · 7 min

Cloudflare Launches Clef and Clef-flash: First In-House Models Return Typed Probabilities

When TypeSafe launched Jev on September 15, 2026, it opened a new category: decision models that return typed probabilities instead of free text.

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Illustration: a sound waveform shaped from woven red and ochre threads growing out of Moroccan zellige-style clay, one strand turning into smooth metal wire. AI-generated illustration.AI-generated illustration
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Oct 2, 2026 · 5 min

First Release Under "AI Made in Morocco": Open Speech Tools for Moroccan Darija

Morocco's Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform and the French company Mistral AI have made two open-source tools available to developers and businesses: a classifier that recognises Arabic dialects, and a speech…

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Illustration: six matte metal modules in a row on paper, one cobalt-blue module shifted out of alignment, soft shadows and generous negative space.Illustrasjon
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Oct 1, 2026 · 5 min

DeepSeek releases six open tools for Huawei Ascend – with TileLang support for Ascend 950

The company released six open modules tailored for Huawei Ascend chips on Wednesday, including an Ascend-compatible version of the TileLang programming language, which now officially supports the Ascend 950.

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Apr 18, 2026 · 2 min

Open-source AI is thriving in Norway – projects you should know

An overview of the most exciting Norwegian and Nordic open-source AI projects.

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