Open source makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

LiteLLM allows developers to integrate a diverse range of LLM models as if they were calling OpenAI’s API, with support for fallbacks, budgets, rate limits, and real-time monitoring of API calls. The ...

Mistral AI and the Allen Institute for AI today released new large language models that they claim are among the most advanced in their respective categories. Mistral’s model is called Mistral Small 3 ...

On January 20, 2025, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled R1, an open-source large language model (LLM) that is redefining industry expectations. Designed to offer performance on par with proprietary ...

The release of Deepseek v3.1 signifies a major advancement in the realm of large language models (LLMs). This open source AI model, licensed under MIT, introduces a powerful 700GB mixture of experts ...

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative (OSI): If a piece of software is available under a license rubber stamped as “open source” ...

IBM recently updated its Granite series of enterprise open-source large language models, introducing Granite 3.0 to better meet business needs of balanced performance, safety, and cost-efficiency.

Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a bit of Amazon) along with their model makers of choice, ...