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Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class
# Iris-mini and Iris-pro Set New Open-Source Search Agent Standards AllSpark has released two open-source search agents, Iris-mini and Iris-pro, buil…
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Y Combinator president Garry Tan is pushing for a new strategy to strengthen America's AI capabilities: having smaller domestic open-weight AI labs ad…
OpenClaw 2.0 is here, ushering in the era of 'multiplayer' AI coding: What it means for enterprises
OpenClaw 2.0 launches with multi-agent capabilities that reshape how enterprises deploy AI systems. The open source framework, originally built by Pet…
OpenClaw 2.0 brings simplified setup, a rebuilt browser app, and multiplayer sessions
OpenClaw Foundation has released OpenClaw 2.0, marking the largest update in the platform's history with over 16,000 pull requests merged. The open-so…
LAION drops massive open video dataset with 10 million hours of footage for AI research
LAION, the nonprofit organization behind some of AI's most widely used training datasets, released Big Video Dataset (BVD), a massive collection of 80…
IBM drops open-weight Granite 4.2 family with built-in agentic capabilities under Apache 2.0
IBM released the Granite 4.2 family of open-weight language models with integrated agent capabilities, available under the permissive Apache 2.0 licen…
Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform
Cursor, the AI-powered code editor company, is launching a new code-hosting platform directly challenging GitHub's dominance in developer tooling. The…
Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.3, claims it's the strongest open-weights coding model
Zhipu AI, the Chinese AI company behind the popular ChatGLM chatbot series, has released GLM-5.3 and claims it represents the strongest open-weights c…
Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license
Alibaba's Qwen AI team has released Qwen 3.8, a new family of open-weight models distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. The flagship model contains…