Tag: Open Source
37 articles tagged Open Source
UK safety institute cuts evaluation runs by up to 97%
AISI has open-sourced optstop, which halts benchmark sampling once a model's score is precise enough, saving most planned trials without shifting the estimates.
Southampton AI splits a cancer marker long counted as one
An open-source tool from Southampton separates two centrosome defects in breast cancer, with one tracking aggressive disease and shorter overall survival.
Red Hat tells government sovereign AI is control, not geography
Red Hat's UK public sector adviser argues sovereignty means a department can operate, inspect and repair its own systems without a vendor granting leave.
Chinese AI models seize up to 46% of US developer use
Chinese open models now account for as much as 46% of tokens routed through OpenRouter by US firms, up from an 11% average, as American model prices climb.
Cheap Chinese model GLM-5.2 closes gap with US AI leaders
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 performs close to Claude Opus 4.8 at a fraction of the cost, reviving the 'DeepSeek moment' and sharpening procurement questions.
Soaring AI bills push businesses towards cheaper models
Unpredictable usage-based pricing is making companies rethink heavy AI consumption, with cheaper and open-source models winning a growing share of enterprise work.
Chinese open model GLM-5.2 stirs Silicon Valley
z.AI's open-source GLM-5.2 coding model is drawing DeepSeek-level buzz, reviving questions about America's lead and offering UK firms a cheaper option.
Can open source deliver sovereign AI? UK experts weigh in
At an OpenUK roundtable, experts argued UK sovereign AI is less about geography than control, resilience and avoiding 'sovereign washing'.
GDS challenges NHS open-source retreat after Glasswing disclosures
The Government Digital Service has issued public guidance recommending the UK public sector 'keep open by default' — read as a direct push back against the NHS closing its repositories.
NHS England locks down hundreds of GitHub repos over Mythos risk
NHS England is making hundreds of public GitHub repos private by 11 May, citing risks from frontier AI models including Anthropic's Mythos.
UK reliance on US big tech flagged as national security risk in MP-backed report
Open Rights Group report warns UK digital sovereignty is exposed to US sanctions and CMA estimates £500 million yearly premium on cloud services.
Netflix Releases VOID Model That Erases Objects From Video
Netflix has open-sourced VOID, a vision-language model that removes objects from video and inpaints how remaining elements should behave afterwards.
Google releases Gemma 4 open-source AI models under Apache 2.0 licence
Google's Gemma 4 family spans four model sizes from mobile to workstation, with native vision, audio, and 140+ language support under a permissive open-source licence.
Researchers Warn Open-Source AI Models Vulnerable to Criminal Misuse
Joint SentinelOne and Censys research reveals thousands of open-source LLM deployments operating without guardrails, creating security risks for spam, phishing and disinformation.
Baidu Releases Open-Source Multimodal AI Claiming GPT-5 Performance
ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B model uses mixture-of-experts architecture with dynamic image examination, activating 3 billion of 28 billion parameters whilst matching larger competitors on document understanding benchmarks.