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Longcat 2.5, Ripple 65B, Inkling Small: This Week's Open-Weight Model Drops
Longcat 2.5, Ripple 65B, and Thinking Machines' Inkling Small landed this week. Here's what each open-weight model offers and who can run them.
Arete-27B: Nous Research's Fine-Tune Strips CCP Framing From Qwen3.8-27B
Nous Research fine-tuned Qwen3.8-27B to cut propaganda-framed answers from 22% to under 1%, with details on method and benchmark results.
Why Are Big Companies Switching to Chinese AI Models?
Coinbase, Airbnb and DoorDash now run Chinese open-weight models like Kimi K2 for lower cost, data control, and no vendor lock-in.
Who Is Local AI Actually For? The Honest Tradeoffs Explained
Local AI promises data control and independence from the cloud, but the hardware cost, setup time, and speed tradeoffs mean it's not for everyone yet.
Open Weights vs Enterprise Lock-In: Cohere and Reflection AI's Split Bets
Cohere's North 2 locks AI inside enterprise walls while Reflection AI's Beam promises open weights. Here's what the split strategy means.
Is the US-China AI Arms Race Real, or Just Good Lobbying?
A veteran of both US and Chinese AI industries argues the US-China AI arms race is largely a myth used to justify bad policy and overspending.
Nex-N2.5 Benchmarks vs Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6, and Kimi K3
Nex-N2.5-Pro and Max benchmark scores on SWE-Bench Pro, OSWorld, and BrowseComp, compared against Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6, and Kimi K3.
Nvidia PAIR: How to Route Local AI Across Multiple Home Machines
Nvidia PAIR is a free open-source router that spreads Ollama and LM Studio requests across GPUs on your home network. Here's how it works.
How Ollama Pulls Off Day-Zero Launches for New Open Models
Inside Ollama's playbook for launching open-weight models on release day, from harness support to hardware tuning across chips and providers.
What Is the White House's AI Action Plan? Open Source Explained
Michael Kratsios explains the US AI Action Plan, the White House's stated commitment to open-weight models, and why it avoids hard compute rules.
What Is Unsloth? Local LLM Fine-Tuning and Inference Explained
Unsloth is a free, open-source tool for fine-tuning and running open LLMs locally with a point-and-click, ChatGPT-like agent UI.