Vercel's monthly Production Index shows open-weight models now handle more than seven in ten tokens on its gateway and nearly a quarter of spending, a share of spend that has more than quadrupled since June. September spending was about 13 times December's while the average price per token fell 47%, and almost a third of teams switched their main lab.
Version 1.5 of the Apertus model is out, with its release notes published on the Hugging Face blog.
ZDNet argues that as fast AI progress keeps pushing development forward, only certain Linux releases will be able to keep up.
IOPaint uses several AI models to remove unwanted people or objects from photos and automatically rebuild the background. The free, open-source tool can run locally, so images never go to an online service.
At Open Source Summit Europe 2026, the openKylin community described a shift from managing resources to managing user intent. It introduced KART, a unified AI runtime, and AI features in openKylin 3.0 such as an assistant and intelligent search.
Hugging Face announces support for the FLUX.3 Image Klein image-generation model in its Diffusers library.