Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and ...

DeepSeek leads surge in low cost Chinese open-weight models on US platform

Open models reached a record share of 62 per cent on a US web development platform on Saturday, a reversal of figures in June ...

David Sacks Calls AI Regulation a 'Trojan Horse' to Shut Down Open Models, While Chamath Palihapitiya Warns US Investment Could 'Go Off of a Cliff'

Former White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks warned that proposed AI safety standards could evolve into regulations that ...

David Sacks says restricting open models won’t stop China from building ‘the next Kimi’ — backs Harvey’s first AI model built for legal work

On Friday, David Sacks, former White House AI and crypto czar and current co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on ...

Open Models Have A Distribution Layer Enterprises Rarely Track

Hugging Face counts 28,531 community GGUF conversions of Qwen models and 54 from Qwen itself. The file that runs is rarely ...
Opinion

China’s open-weight model lead exposes America’s AI blind spot

The future of AI may be dictated not by who builds the smartest model, but who builds the models everyone runs on. Right now, that's China.

White House AI vetting plan to exempt lower-cost ‘open’ models

The details of the framework, which would govern the voluntary review of advanced AI models, come after a Tuesday meeting at the White House with top tech companies.

Thomson Reuters launches in-house AI model to cut Anthropic costs

The company spent $40 million to build Thomson, which is based on an open-source model from Chinese tech giant Alibaba ...

Google Should Open-Weight A Frontier Gemini Model

Google is losing top AI researchers just as the open-weight frontier goes to Nvidia and China. Why Google should open-weight ...

OpenAI and Anthropic Cut AI Costs as Open-Weight Models Gain Ground

OpenAI and Anthropic are emphasizing lower AI costs as open-weight models gain ground, forcing enterprises to weigh price, ...
Opinion

Jensen Huang's Push for Open-Weight AI Models Is Really a Bet to Expand Nvidia's Total Addressable Market

Jensen Huang's push for open AI may sound altruistic, but it could also be one of Nvidia's smartest long-term growth strategies.
TechCrunch

OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?

The impressive capabilities of Chinese lab Moonshot’s Kimi K3, the biggest open-weight large language model, have kicked off a debate that conflates two things: the economic possibilities of American ...