Nvidia's open data engine Flora labels an hour of robot video for 72 cents, against $88 with GPT-6 Astra, with slightly higher quality scores. Built on three fine-tuned Qwen3.5 models, it is far better at spotting errors in robot actions but sometimes less accurate in its descriptions, and Nvidia sees it as part of a push to cover the whole robotics value chain.
A WeChat account affiliated with state broadcaster CCTV says DeepSeek and MiniMax are the first companies to complete registration under China's proposed AI export controls. Both have obtained rights to release models as open source and license them overseas.
The researchers behind OpenMobile-2 argue smartphone agents improve by training on many different apps rather than on more data. They built an open environment with over 110 apps, including 35 replicas of popular ones, and say their model scores highest among open agents on real Android devices.
The moderators of Reddit's r/opensource have posted new submission rules that, among other restrictions, exclude any project that uses AI, is made by AI or is meant for AI. They argue that AI in its current form is at odds with open source.
Microsoft Research has released Agensh, a multi-agent harness with no central orchestrator in which self-organising workers share a Git repository, a chat and a findings board. On ProgramBench, with a six-hour budget, it scaled from one agent to 1,024.
Hugging Face's Carbon-X is an open 14.8-billion-parameter DNA language model built on Qwen3-14B. It reads raw DNA in a chat and answers in English, averages 66.7% across five DNA benchmarks, and is released under Apache 2.0.