Whether to accept AI-generated code has divided the free software community for months, with some calling it a betrayal of open source values. Linus Torvalds sees no real problem with it, on one condition: developers must be able to read and understand what the AI produced.
Vercel Shop, an open-source Next.js storefront template for Shopify built on the Hydrogen SDK, is now generally available. It is designed so that AI agents, as well as people and search engines, can read product data directly and use tools built for them to shop.
The new Multica release lets teams organise agent work into project workflows, with columns and handoffs between steps, and renders each workflow brief once on the server. The update also recovers completed drafts from builder agents and fixes several issues with resuming sessions and cleaning up artifacts.
NVIDIA describes on Hugging Face how it scaled pretraining data for Indian languages to 2.8 trillion tokens, along with an open pipeline for generating that data.
AWS has released two open-source projects for building agents: Strands Decider 2B, a small model that makes decisions inside agent workflows, and Strands Box, a sandbox for controlling how agents execute. Together they target agents that call tools, run code and interact with outside systems.
Hugging Face is hosting Beam, an open model with 501 billion parameters. The release is pitched as a model that users can own, adapt to their needs and run at scale.