Category Open Source

Thinking Machines Debuts Inkling, Its First Open Model Built for Enterprise Customization

Thinking Machines launches an open-weight model, Inkling, to push enterprise AI customization over one-size-fits-all chatbots.

A reported Suno hack suggests the AI music generator scraped YouTube and other sources, deepening copyright and privacy concerns.

Open models are taking share from frontier labs as enterprises seek cheaper, customizable AI and less vendor lock-in.

Reflection AI signs a $1B compute deal with Nebius, underscoring the growing importance of compute deal spending in the open-model AI race.

Nous Research is reportedly raising at least $75M at a $1.5B valuation as demand for AI agents and Hermes heats up.

Satya Nadella warns AI models may make companies pay twice — in cash and proprietary data — and urges more control, routing and open-source use.

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says open source AI is booming as companies seek lower costs, more control and less vendor lock-in.

Hugging Face CEO says open-source AI is drawing companies away from expensive frontier APIs as enterprise demand and costs grow.

Open source AI tool Ollama raises $65M as monthly developers near 9 million and open-weight models gain ground in enterprise AI.

Open source AI is surging in usage, but Anthropic still dominates premium spend as frontier models and open models split the market.