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The practice of publishing model weights, training code and datasets under terms that let others run, modify and redistribute them.
AWS open-sourced Strands Decider 2B, a 2B-parameter decision model it says makes a decision in a median of about 115 ms on an RTX 3090. Strands Box, the sandbox released with it, enforces agent rules in a kernel-level policy layer outside the model.
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Ai2's Olmo-core 3 reached about 52,000 tokens per second per GPU on a 47B mixture-of-experts model, roughly 2.7 times the old stack, on eight B300 GPUs. The report labels every headline rate as measured under random routing, so a team with a trained router has to rerun the comparison.
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Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai pitched open-source AI to Europe as its only path to independence while Alibaba funds AI with about $25bn a year of e-commerce cash. Three years of doubled compute spending make Alibaba's AI push a strategy buyers can plan around, and Tsai's own warning about trusting foreign technology covers Alibaba too.
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DeepSeek released its open-source Harness agent runtime as a Windows and macOS desktop app on September 30, so users no longer need a command line to run it. The agent edits local files and runs commands, so what each user exposes to it decides what it can touch and which provider sees it.
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Ai2 released Olmo-core 3, an open mixture-of-experts training stack it has benchmarked at over one trillion total parameters. Its speedups are measured against Ai2's own earlier FSDP code, so teams on Megatron-Core must run their own comparison.
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Eclipse Foundation launched the Sovereign AI Foundation with 17 mostly European members to help organizations manage dependence on a single AI provider. Its director lists where switching costs land and says members will now gather the evidence to size them.
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Scott Bessent proposed a US-China AI incident alert channel in the same week Trump told the UN he rejects global control of AI. The channel asks nothing of labs before launch, while Xi's main ask, looser US chip export controls, is the item with revenue at stake.
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Meta's Muse, with an estimated 600,000 US daily users, reuses the core file names and personality lines of open-source agent OpenClaw. Meta says the code is its own, so the case for Muse depends on how it guards the logins its agent uses.
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Dario Amodei and Sam Altman told the UN Security Council that AI could threaten humanity and asked governments to set safeguards. The White House science adviser in the room said no new global governance structure is needed.
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Mozilla put up the first $5 million and Hypertec added $1 million for first-year Canadian deployments on its own hardware. The published contracts are the part that would let anyone swap the pieces.
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Anthropic and OpenAI have promised outside evaluators permanent, employee-level access to their systems. Neither has published the terms, and the first volunteer is mid-acquisition by a would-be anchor investor in Anthropic's IPO.
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Xi used the summit's closing session to make China the lead builder of an open-source AI ecosystem for BRICS members, and Beijing says it has already partnered with around 30 countries on a separate World AI Cooperation Organisation.
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