Alibaba’s Qwen family hits 700 million downloads to lead global open-source AI adoption

Alibaba Cloud's Qwen family is the world's most widely used open-source AI system as of January, Hugging Face data shows ...

DeepSeek a year on: how a little-known Chinese start-up sparked a global AI arms race

DeepSeek's meteoric rise propelled the growth of the open-source AI ecosystem by spurring its competitors to join the ...
TechCrunch

Nvidia bulks up open source offerings with an acquisition and new open AI models

Nvidia continues to expand its footprint in open source AI on two fronts: an acquisition and a new model release. The semiconductor giant announced Monday it acquired SchedMD, the leading developer of ...
Forbes

China’s New Playbook：Is The Open-Source AI Desperate For H200 Chips?

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek logo is seen on a phone in front of a flag of China on January 28, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. Global tech stocks plummeted ...
VentureBeat

Arcee aims to reboot U.S. open source AI with new Trinity models released under Apache 2.0

For much of 2025, the frontier of open-weight language models has been defined not in Silicon Valley or New York City, but in Beijing and Hangzhou. Now, one small U.S. company is pushing back. Today, ...
TechCrunch

OpenAI and Perplexity are launching AI shopping assistants, but competing startups aren’t sweating it

With holiday shopping on the horizon, OpenAI and Perplexity both announced AI shopping features this week, which integrate into their existing chatbots to help users research potential purchases. The ...
Reuters

Nvidia buys AI software provider SchedMD to expand open-source AI push

Dec 15 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab said on Monday it acquired AI software firm SchedMD, as the chip designer doubles down on open-source technology and steps up investments in the ...