Alibaba’s Qwen team of AI researchers — already having a banner year with numerous powerful open source AI model releases — is now answering with its own alternative, Qwen-Image-2512, once again available freely for developers and even large enterprises for commercial purposes under a standard, permissive Apache 2.0 license.

With the rising technological prowess and greater openness of Chinese models, the world is increasingly turning to the East for efficient and customizable AI, a new report finds.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -OpenAI said on Tuesday it has released two open-weight language models that excel in advanced reasoning and are optimized to run on laptops with performance levels similar to its smaller proprietary reasoning models. An open-weight ...

Open-weight LLMs can unlock significant strategic advantages, delivering customization and independence in an increasingly AI-driven world.

OpenAI announced Tuesday the launch of two open-weight AI reasoning models with similar capabilities to its o-series. Both are freely available to download from the online developer platform Hugging Face, the company said, describing the models as “state ...

Using an open AI model can provide significant advantages, including avoidance of licensing fees and greater control over your data. However, adoption of open source AI is not as straightforward as using conventional open source software (OSS) because an ...

Despite the company's name, OpenAI hasn't dropped an open version of its AI models since GPT-2 in 2019. That changed on Tuesday, as CEO Sam Altman shared two new open-weights, reasoning AI models, named gpt-oss-120b (120 billion parameters) and gpt-oss-20b ...

Nemotron-3 Nano (available now): A highly efficient and accurate model. Though it’s a 30 billion-parameter model, only 3 billion parameters are active at any time, allowing it to fit onto smaller form-factor GPUs, such as the L40S.