Category Open Source

Hugging Face’s Pollen Robotics Unveils Microduck, a Tiny Open-Source Robot That Skates, Sings and Learns

Hugging Face’s Microduck robot preorders start at $399. Here’s what the tiny open-source duck can do and why it matters.

Nvidia’s reported Hugging Face acquisition could reshape open-source AI, cloud computing and chip competition across the industry.

Perceptron has launched Isaac 0.5, an open-weight visual AI model aimed at robots, warehouses and factory-floor automation.

Ox Alpha has been revealed as a Z.ai model, intensifying pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic as open-weight AI competition heats up.

Stability AI funding reached $76 million as music, gaming and tech investors backed the Stable Diffusion maker’s creative AI push.

AI presentation startup Gamma acquired Lica to build a new design research lab focused on multimodal, personalized visual communication.

Hugging Face acquisition talks could value the AI platform at $13B, reflecting booming demand for core AI infrastructure.

Developers are already bypassing Claude watermarking, exposing limits in AI transparency tools under the EU AI Act.

Cursor launched Origin, a GitHub rival built for AI-era coding, amid outages that renewed developer frustration with the dominant code host.

Firefox’s AI browser Smart Window adds live web links, history previews, tab suggestions and stronger privacy controls in beta.