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Ollama Raises $65M to Power Local Open-Source AI

Ollama closed a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures on July 9, growing to 8.9M monthly developers and a presence in 85% of the Fortune 500.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 11, 20265 min read
AI

Liquid AI's Antidoom Open-Sources a Fix for Reasoning-Model Doom Loops

Liquid AI open-sourced Antidoom, a training method that stops reasoning models from looping on repeated tokens — cutting doom loops from over 20% to near 1%.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 9, 20265 min read
AI

Exo Labs' local.ai Helps You Run Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware

Exo Labs launched local.ai, a free platform that matches the best AI model to your own hardware and shows when running locally beats paying per API token.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 9, 20265 min read
AI

Leanstral 1.5: An Open-Source Lean 4 Model Brings Formal Proof to Real Code

Mistral's Leanstral 1.5 is an open-source Lean 4 theorem-proving model that saturates miniF2F and flags real bugs, making formal verification practical.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJul 4, 20264 min read
AI

PP-OCRv6 Brings Tiny, 50-Language Open-Source OCR to Hugging Face

PaddlePaddle released PP-OCRv6 on June 22, 2026 — a family of tiny open-source OCR models covering 50 languages, now available on the Hugging Face Hub.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 26, 20264 min read
AI

GLM-5.2 Open Weights Arrive as a Top Coding Model at a Fraction of the Cost

Z.ai released GLM-5.2 open weights under an MIT license on June 16, 2026 — an open-weight coding model that rivals the best closed systems on long-horizon benchmarks at roughly one-sixth the cost.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 22, 20265 min read
AI

Google's Gemma 4 12B Brings Multimodal AI to a 16GB Laptop

Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 12B on June 3, 2026 — an open multimodal model that reads images and audio and runs on a 16GB laptop, free under Apache 2.0.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 9, 20265 min read
AI

Hugging Face Hub 1.18 Adds an AI Skills Marketplace to Its CLI

The new huggingface-hub 1.18 release introduces an 'hf skills' command, surfacing a growing marketplace of reusable AI skills for the open-source community.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 8, 20263 min read
AI

NVIDIA Cosmos 3: The First Fully Open Omni-Model for Physical AI

NVIDIA's Cosmos 3, launched early June 2026, is the first fully open omni-model for physical AI — reasoning first, then generating across modalities.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenJun 3, 20264 min read
AI

Hugging Face Turns the Hub Into Agent-First Infrastructure — Every Gradio Space Now Speaks Directly to AI Agents

Hugging Face shipped an /agents.md endpoint on every Gradio Space and elevated Kernels to a first-class repository type in May 2026 — making the open AI stack natively callable by AI coding agents.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMay 26, 20267 min read
AI

NVIDIA's Ising Models Bring Open-Source AI to Quantum Computing

NVIDIA launched Ising today — the world's first open AI models for quantum error correction and calibration, delivering 2.5x faster performance and 3x higher accuracy.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenApr 14, 20265 min read
AI

Arcee Trinity-Large-Thinking: America's Most Powerful Open-Source Reasoning AI

Arcee's Trinity-Large-Thinking brings 400B-parameter open-source reasoning to enterprises under Apache 2.0 — the most capable US-made open-weight model ever released.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenApr 13, 20265 min read
AI

OpenClaw Becomes GitHub's Most-Starred Project as the Open-Source AI Agent Wave Crests

The open-source AI agent framework OpenClaw has surpassed 250,000 GitHub stars, overtaking React — marking a pivotal shift in how developers worldwide build and ship autonomous AI agents.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMar 31, 20265 min read
Mini Computers

NVIDIA Open-Sources Cosmos World Models and Isaac GR00T N1 — Giving Robotics Developers a Free Physics Engine for AI

The Cosmos world foundation models and GR00T N1 humanoid robot model are now available on GitHub, enabling simulation-to-reality robotics development on Jetson edge hardware.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 19, 20264 min read
AI

NVIDIA Debuts Nemotron 3 — Open Models With 4x Throughput and a Million-Token Context Window

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 family ships three tiers of open models optimized for agentic AI, plus 3 trillion tokens of training data for the community.

Dr. Nova Chen
Dr. Nova ChenMar 2, 20265 min read