Mistral Raises €3B in Series D — Valuation Above €21B, Led by Samsung Electronics
NVIDIA Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000 - "NVIDIA Compute Will Not Be Required"
Tencent Hy4 Preview: 770B MoE Weights Released Under Apache 2.0
Mistral Partners With Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN - Hundreds of Millions of Euros, With Arabic Frontier Models Planned
Google Says Gemma Has Passed One Billion Downloads, With Over 100,000 Community Variants
Liquid AI Releases DSpark Draft Models for Speculative Decoding on LFM2.5
Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B, a 3.1B VLM That Reads Screens and UIs - Fits in About 3GB
WRITER Releases Flagship Palmyra X6 - Post-Trained on the Open-Weights GLM 5.2
Google DeepMind's Cyclone Forecasting Paper Lands in Nature, Code and Weights Released
K-EXAONE 2.0: LG AI Research Releases a 750B Open-Weights MoE Model Under Apache 2.0
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