A four-week competition led by Cadenza Labs and the National Deep Inference Fabric (NDIF), funded by Schmidt Sciences, pitted 19 teams against each other to build the best AI lie detector, with Eleuth…
Hugging Face is the largest open-source model hub with over 1 million registered users and 500,000 model repositories as of early 2026, while Reddit's r/MachineLearning has 2.3 million subscribers and…
Empero released Qwen3.8-9B Distill, a full-parameter fine-tune that transfers reasoning from the Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B teacher into the Qwen3.5-9B architecture, trained on roughly 70,000 curated chain-of-…
Nvidia is investing $26 billion in nearly open-source AI models, aiming to enable widespread model building and increase demand for its chips, according to a report by Wired. The company's strategy, h…
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that AI agents are 'tools, not persons' under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), vacating a preliminary injunction against Perplexity AI's Comet Browser …
Hugging Face and EleutherAI's FineBooks project tested 14 open-source OCR models on more than 2,000 historical book pages, finding the top model, dots.mocr, achieves 97.6 percent character accuracy at…
EleutherAI's Pythia-410M model, trained on The Pile corpus, shows that neural network knowledge forms through gradual accretion rather than sudden ignition, with Paris reaching 15% probability as capi…
Kimi.ai released the model weights and a technical report for K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with native visual understanding and a 1 million-token context window, on July…
The EvalEval Coalition has launched a unified, open data format and public dataset for AI evaluation results, aiming to address fragmentation and enable trust and comparability across frameworks. The …
A researcher at EleutherAI has built a mathematical model to forecast loss of control to AI, finding that predictions are highly sensitive to poorly characterized parameters for 'leakage' (accidental …
Jack Dorsey's nonprofit Start Small has donated tens of millions of dollars to open-source AI projects and Bitcoin development, including $31 million to OpenSats and $5 million to Brink, signaling a l…
EleutherAI researcher Hailey Schoelkopf discussed the evolution of open-source AI, the distinction between open-source and open-weight models, and the importance of evaluation tools like the LM Evalua…
A 124M-parameter GPT-2 model trained from scratch on OpenWebText data using a custom deep learning library achieved a validation loss of 2.764 nats and a perplexity of 15.87 after 56,000 steps (27.5B …
A research project using k-sparse autoencoders found interpretable features in a small reasoning model, including features that appear to correspond to the model's reasoning process. The experiment an…
Google DeepMind's safety team conducts research on AI alignment, interpretability, and robustness, focusing on scalable oversight, reward modeling, and evaluation frameworks. The team operates within …
The Center for AI Safety (CAIS), a nonprofit organization focused on reducing societal-scale risks from artificial intelligence, conducts technical research on robustness, alignment, and systemic safe…
The Alignment Research Center (ARC) is a nonprofit research organization focused on aligning advanced AI systems with human values. ARC conducts theoretical and empirical research on eliciting latent …