On Oct. 3, German company Aleph Alpha released Kolibri 1, a mixture-of-experts language model whose full weights can be downloaded from Hugging Face. ActuIA examines what its Apache 2.0 license allows.
NVIDIA says telecom operators increasingly build their AI strategies on open models, which give them more control and customization for network automation and customer care. The claim draws on NVIDIA’s latest State of AI in Telecommunications report.
On Oct. 6, Mistral opened a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1.05-trillion-parameter model it calls the most capable open model outside China. Independent measurements show it catching up, with cybersecurity pitched as a selling point against Chinese open models.
Google DeepMind has released EmbeddingGemma 2, an open and lightweight model that produces multimodal embeddings.
A Hugging Face post describes fine-tuning NVIDIA’s Nemotron models to reach gold-level results at the International Olympiad in Informatics and the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Falcon ASR, a speech recognition model, has been introduced on the Hugging Face blog.