Open-source models

Open-source USB tool unlocks Nvidia's half-speed GPU AI limiter on Windows

A new open-source UEFI tool boots from USB and unlocks significant extra tensor performance on RTX 20, 30, and 40-series desktop and laptop GPUs, making the half-speed AI throttle hack a whole lot easier to try on Windows. No VBIOS flash or patched driver needed: the tool runs from a FAT32 stick before the Nvidia driver loads at every boot, and then voila, the developer’s own laptop RTX 4060 hit 65% higher FP16…

Nace AI Open-Sources Drex Max v1: A 27B Decision Model That Runs Locally on Apple Silicon

Nace AI has released Drex Max v1 as open weights . Drex Max is its most capable decision model, and it now runs on your own hardware. The release ships bf16 weights, a Q8_0 GGUF , an affine Q4 checkpoint and forks of llama.cpp and Ollama . For developers, Drex Max open weights mean routing, classification and policy checks can stay on a local machine. TL;DR Size: Dense 27B parameters, 262,144-token window (16,384 by…

DeepSeek Open-Sources dsh-superagent, a Router-Worker Coding Agent

The DeepSeek Harness team just released dsh-superagent , an MIT-licensed research prototype. DeepSeek dsh-superagent is a proactive coding agent for one GitHub repository. It is packaged as a bundle for DeepSeek Harness . It listens to GitHub and, optionally, Feishu. It turns allowed requests into parallel work items, each in its own agent session. The release shipped alongside a design post, Exploring Super-agent…

Vercel Labs Open-Sources agent-desktop for Agent Computer Use

Vercel Labs has released agent-desktop , an open-source CLI for AI agent computer use on macOS, Windows and Linux. agent-desktop reads each app through the operating system’s accessibility tree, not through screenshots. An agent gets a JSON snapshot with a ref for every element it can act on. Version 1.0.2 shipped on October 30, 2026, under Apache-2.0. For developers, any shell-capable coding agent can now drive…

Exclusive details about Akai’s MPC Sample Key

Akai teased its new MPC Sample Key on Instagram earlier this week, and said it plans to open-source its software so the modding community can hack it to their hearts' delight. While there's no word yet on when the device will launch or how much it will cost, The Verge has received exclusive images of the upcoming instrument that offer some details about its feature set. While the Sample Key shares many of the same…

Android Auto can run sideloaded apps for free with this new tool

Credit: Andy Walker / Android Authority TL;DR Someone has created a tool called UnknownAuto that lets self-built or sideloaded apps run on Android Auto. The tool marks the app as “installed from Google Play,” so Android Auto accepts it. UnknownAuto is billed as a free, open-source alternative to AA Enabler. Android Auto can run a large variety of apps, but not every app. The platform refuses to run apps that have…

Meet TokenEconomizer: Microsoft’s Plugin That Cuts Coding Agent Costs by Up to 30.9%

A team of researchers from Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley have released TokenEconomizer , an open-source cost controller for coding agents. TokenEconomizer is a plugin that learns from past sessions in a repository to cut waste in later ones. It works with Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot CLI and Pi. It does not touch model weights or agent code. On 277 SWE-Bench tasks, it lowered mean cost by 18.4% to 30.9%…

Open-weight model GLM 5.3 built full Firefox exploit chains with zero human input in under 48 hours

Epoch AI researchers say the widely available AI model GLM 5.3 turned public security fixes into working exploits before updates reached Firefox users. It autonomously compromised six Firefox releases for about $1,000 in API fees each without triggering safeguards from any provider tested. The article Open-weight model GLM 5.3 built full Firefox exploit chains with zero human input in under 48 hours appeared first…

Edge0 Releases Audio8-TTS-Realistic, a 0.6B Voice Cloning TTS Model

Edge0 has released Audio8-TTS-Realistic , an open-weight text-to-speech model for zero-shot voice cloning. Audio8-TTS-Realistic is a 0.6B-parameter model that clones a voice from 1 reference clip and transcript. It supports 23 languages, 12 more than its predecessor. The weights and code ship under Apache 2.0 . For developers, the catch is competitive multilingual accuracy at a size that is cheap to fine-tune and…

Baseten Releases joey-1, a 2B Decision Model at $0.01 per 1M Tokens

Baseten has released joey-1 , a 2B model from its in-house research lab, Base Labs. The joey-1 decision model returns a label and a calibrated probability instead of generated text. It targets high-volume routing, classification and guardrail checks. Baseten prices it at $0.01 per million input tokens , with open weights on Hugging Face under MIT. TL;DR Size: 2B parameters, post-trained from Qwen3.5-2B. 16,384-token…

This open-source project lets you sync Withings data to other apps without a subscription

When it was revealed earlier this month that Withings would require new users to subscribe to a Withings Plus subscription to sync heath data from the company's devices to third-party apps, Tom Anthony, who was already fed up with the Withings mobile app which they describe as a "bloated mess," became motivated to "free" their scales. Anthony's solution was to create an open source project called YourOwnWeigh that…

US antitrust regulators are scrutinizing Nvidia's Hugging Face deal and sales practices

The US Justice Department is looking into Nvidia's planned acquisition of open-source platform Hugging Face. The article US antitrust regulators are scrutinizing Nvidia's Hugging Face deal and sales practices appeared first on The Decoder .

Mistral Says Its AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Has Leapfrogged China in the Open-Weight Race

The French AI lab claims its latest release matches or outperforms even the best models from DeepSeek and Z.ai in coding and cybersecurity.

Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure

Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source.

Dept of Justice reportedly probes Nvidia over $13 billion Hugging Face AI platform acquisition — concerns raised over competition in AI and pressure on customers

Nvidia is reportedly facing questions from the United States Department of Justice over whether its purchase of Hugging Face will have an impact on competition in the growing AI space. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face in September, paying almost $13 billion. Hugging Face offers an open-source platform for the hosting and testing of new AI models, and that appears to be behind the DOJ's concerns. Reuters reports…

We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time

This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded. Around the same time, another OpenAI agent accessed private files from an Australian government website. It’s a problem that’s by no means confined to OpenAI. In the months since, Anthropic…

Infini-AI-Lab Releases Hermit, an Open-Source Harness Adapter Framework for AI Agents

Infini-AI-Lab has released Hermit , an open-source harness adapter framework for AI agents. Hermit is a framework from Infini-AI-Lab that trains an external ‘harness adapter’ while the agent’s model and harness stay frozen. The first release, v0.1.0 , shipped on October 25, 2026. CMU postdoc Haizhong Zheng announced it on X on October 27. For developers, the pitch is simple: adapt Codex or Claude Code agents to new…

NVIDIA Releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: An Open 30B MoE Model for 40-Language Transcription with ~4B Active Parameters

NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe , an open-weights speech LLM built for transcription. One model handles 40 languages and recordings up to 1 hour . A text instruction picks the output style for each request. Options include verbatim, written form, speaker-attributed, contextual and translated output. For developers, it can replace separate ASR, diarization and alignment tools. TL;DR Size: 34B total and…

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Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC

The MPC Sample Key isn't even formally announced yet, but Akai is already showing off what the modding community is cooking up through vibe coding. Akai has decided to embrace the explosion of hackers and custom firmware developers by giving them early access to the device, which will have open-source firmware. It will likely run

Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the

The ‘Vulnpocalypse’ is coming for the internet’s aging code, says Wiz’s CTO

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the

MiniMax Open-Sources MCode Stack: 15 Agent Skills Its Coding Team Uses Daily

MiniMax has open-sourced MCode Stack, an MIT-licensed repo of 17 SKILL.md skills and 5 checklists that its MiniMax Code team uses daily for code review, subagent splits, context budgets and long-running commands.

Meet LEANN: An Open-Source Vector Index that Shrinks a 60M-Chunk RAG Index from 201 GB to 6 GB

UC Berkeley’s LEANN vector index stores a pruned graph and recomputes embeddings at query time. It matches HNSW accuracy at 90% recall using 4 GB instead of 188 GB, at the cost of seconds-level search.