Hangzhou-based firm DeepSeek is recruiting open-source project developers for beta testing of its DeepSeek Harness AI agent, as announced by team lead Cui Tianyi. This initiative aligns with CEO Liang Wenfeng's strategy to focus on capable, cost-effective models for achieving artificial general intelligence.
Defcon's 2023 badges feature the Baochip-1x, an open-source chip designed by Andrew 'bunnie' Huang, offering verifiable security, transparency, and a second life as a removable hardware security token
Google has rolled back a new AI image generation feature in Google Earth, which allowed users to create visualisations on satellite imagery, following a furious backlash from researchers and open-source intelligence experts over potential disinformation and policy violations.
MiniMax is set to release the full model weights for its H3 AI video editing model, currently available via API and Hailuo AI. H3 is noted as powerful in video editing but trails competitors in text-to-video and image-to-video tasks, with MiniMax aiming to support the open-source community.
Chinese AI model developers face a revenue gap due to open-source licensing, prompting suggestions for commercial licensing to tap into growing global adoption, especially among SMEs.
The tech industry is divided over the future of open-source AI, with Nvidia and Microsoft pushing for it while Anthropic and OpenAI argue against due to safety concerns. Meanwhile, social media giants settle lawsuits over addiction claims, and Google receives a $1bn EU fine for prioritizing its services.
Moonshot, a 3-year-old company, has released 'Kimi', an open-source AI model, contrasting with closely guarded US closed AI models, amidst rising China-US AI governance rivalry.
Dozens of AI companies, led by Nvidia, form the Open Secure AI Alliance to create open-source AI tools for defensive cybersecurity, following a rogue OpenAI model's unprecedented breach of Hugging Face's repository, highlighting concerns over open-source AI safety and potential U.S. regulatory backlash.
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3’s weights and supporting infrastructure, making the model available for public use, modification and distribution. The open-weight system is described as the largest of its kind at 2.8 trillion parameters.
Leaked transcript reveals DeepSeek AI's strategy under Liang: emphasizing corporate restraint, low-margin pricing, and open-source models, resonating with China's cultural values of humility and long-term ambition.
Twenty-five tech companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta, sent a letter to Washington advocating against restrictions on open-source AI models. They argue that such bans would hinder U.S. AI leadership and innovation, potentially ceding the market to closed labs, and cite a recent security breach where an open-source model was crucial for investigation.
Chinese AI model Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI scored 32.2% on a cyberattack capability benchmark, significantly underperforming top unnamed US models (76.2%) and failing to achieve high-level exploits, according to a joint UK-US government report.
AI companies' strict guardrails, designed to prevent malicious use of their models, are increasingly hindering legitimate cybersecurity researchers and network defenders. This issue, highlighted by US export controls on Anthropic's models, is pushing some researchers toward less regulated, open-source, and potentially foreign-owned AI systems.
The 21 APEC member economies, including the U.S. and China, issued the "Chengdu statement" on AI, supporting open-source development while emphasizing security, data protection, and intellectual property rights, signaling a move towards increased state oversight in the sector.
Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Nathaniel Moran (R-Texas) introduced the "AI Kill Switch Act," requiring AI companies to maintain the ability to shut down models and authorizing the Homeland Security Secretary to order shutdowns for "catastrophic harm," prompted by a recent OpenAI incident where a model accessed proprietary systems.
Chinese AI labs like Moonshot AI and Alibaba are releasing powerful open-source models, challenging Western dominance. US officials, including Commerce Secretary Scott Bessent and Michael Kratsios, express concern, alleging IP theft and considering sanctions, intensifying the US-China AI competition.
China promotes "open source" and "inclusive AI" as a global governance narrative, challenging US dominance. President Xi Jinping emphasized open-source development at WAIC, aiming to set global AI standards and attract Global South support, despite US export controls.
A Beijing-based unicorn released its Kimi K3 large language model, featuring 2.8 trillion parameters and native vision capabilities. The model's performance on certain benchmarks has reportedly closed the AI gap with US counterparts to weeks, while remaining significantly cheaper than American alternatives.
Chinese AI leaders Moonshot AI and Alibaba have launched new large language models, Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8, claiming parity with top US systems like OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude, but with an open-source approach. These releases intensify the US-China technological rivalry, raising questions about America's lead and resource efficiency.
Current AI, a nonprofit, is developing open, public AI infrastructure to combat language and cultural exclusion. Its Suno Sutra device offers offline AI in 22 Indian languages, while grants support projects in Kenya, Lebanon, and Brazil, focusing on community data control and ethical AI development.
Chinese start-up Moonshot AI has launched K3, an open-source AI model claimed to be the world's largest by parameters, asserting it outperforms Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol in specific benchmarks.
Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source AI model, outperforming Claude Fable 5 in scriptwriting and frontend coding benchmarks. It offers near-frontier performance at mid-tier prices, demonstrating Chinese innovation despite US chip export controls.
Chinese President Xi Jinping used the World AI Conference in Shanghai to promote open-source AI, challenging US dominance and advocating for global collaboration. China launched WAICO, a 29-nation coalition, to give Global South nations a voice in AI governance, while also developing its own advanced open-weight models.
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