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InfoQ AIGitHubGoogle Launches LiteRT Tensor API for Building, Customizing, and Optimizing ML Models for On-Device Google has introduced the LiteRT Tensor API, a lightweight C++ API that allows developers to build, customize, and optimize machine learning models directly for on-device execution.

11.03

SCMP TechAsiaAlibaba’s Joe Tsai champions open-source AI at Wuzhen Summit amid US pushback Open source is the only viable path to creating a sustainable artificial intelligence industry, Alibaba Group Holding chairman Joe Tsai said on Tuesday, as the Chinese technology giant doubles down…

11.03

InfoQ AIGitHubGoogle and Meta Open-source TorchTPU to Bring Native PyTorch Support to Google TPUs TorchTPU is an open-source project developed by Google in collaboration with Meta that provides a native PyTorch backend for Google TPUs.

11.02
Arm Newsroom

Arm NewsroomSiliconTop Arm-based innovations advancing on-device AI, cloud infrastructure, and physical AI in October 2026 Throughout October 2026, developments across the Arm ecosystem showed how a common compute foundation is helping partners deploy more capable intelligence, scale demanding workloads, and connect AI…

11.02

Google Open Source BlogGitHubThis Week in Open Source for October 30, 2026 by Daryl Ducharme & Shane Glass , Open Source Programs Office A look around the world of open source Right before Halloween weekend, it feels fitting to ask what actually haunts open source…

10.30

.NET BlogLanguagesBlazor Welcomes Open-Source Contributions from Syncfusion We’re pleased to announce our collaboration with Syncfusion to advance Blazor! Syncfusion has released a free, open-source toolkit of Blazor components, and its engineers have contributed fixes and…

10.29

vLLM BlogToolsDay 0 support for Mistral Large 4 on vLLM Day-0 vLLM support for Mistral Large 4 with sparse MLA, cross-layer KV sharing, DSpark speculative decoding, DCP/PCP long context and NIXL P/D on NVIDIA Blackwell.

10.29

Cohere BlogLabsConcerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model Discover how untrusted open-weight AI models can potentially leak data, even when self-hosted. Learn the security risks and how to protect your enterprise.

10.26
Ollama Blog

Ollama BlogToolsSpeech models in Ollama Ollama now supports speech models, starting with Phonon from Gradium. Read text aloud in five languages and dozens of voices, streamed as it is generated, over 100 times faster than real time on…

10.24

vLLM BlogToolsServing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at Scale: vLLM Matches DeepInfer and Scales to GB300 NVL72 With P/D disaggregation and Wide-EP on a GB300 NVL72 rack, vLLM serves DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on SemiAnalysis AgentX at 954K tokens/s per GPU at a P90 of 196 tokens/s per user, 7.9x our aggregated…

10.23
Ollama Blog

Ollama BlogToolsClef is available on Ollama's cloud Clef, a 27B multimodal decision model from Cloudflare, is now available on Ollama. Run it locally or on Ollama's cloud.

10.19

DevClassToolsNode.js creator ditches Deno to work on open source Cloudflare Workers Node.js creator Ryan Dahl is sacrificing a battle to win the war … for server-side computing and all ...

10.17
Ollama Blog

Ollama BlogToolsReflection's Beam is freely available on Ollama for a limited time Reflection's first open-weight model is now available on Ollama, and free for a limited time only. Beam is designed for software engineering, reasoning, and long-running agentic tasks.

10.16

GleamLanguagesHelp from the Github Security Lab Earlier in the year, Gleam was invited to and participated in the 4th GitHub Secure Open Source Fund , an annual program that supports key open source projects in order to secure the open source…

08.17

Stability AILabsMeet Stable Audio 3.0, the model family built for artistic experimentation with open-weight models Key Takeaways: We're releasing Stable Audio 3.0 , a model family with open-weights music models that are trained on fully licensed data.

05.20

Google Developers BlogLabsBringing Visual Graph Debugging to Custom Edge Compilers with Model Explorer Google AI Edge Model Explorer now supports custom compiler intermediate representations and open-source adapters like TOSA, VGF, and PTE for on-device machine learning.

11.04

Google Developers BlogLabsAnnouncing New vLLM and SGLang Inference Engines on TPU This post announces native PyTorch backends for vLLM and SGLang powered by TorchTPU, enabling developers to run and optimize serving workloads using familiar PyTorch tools.

11.04

llama.cpp releasesToolsb12078 tools : reject mismatched shards in GGUF split merge ( #31579 ) Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/63239877 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon…

11.03

Hacker News (front)GitHubStringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot Article URL: https://neufangled.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50354358 Points: 339 # Comments: 132

11.03

TechNodeAsiaSenseTime open-sources 9-billion-parameter AI model that reuses layers for deeper processing SenseTime has released SenseNova Loop-9B-Preview, an open-source multimodal model that uses repeated computation to extend its processing depth without duplicating the corresponding model weights.

11.02

TechNodeAsiaDeepSeek team open-sources proactive coding agent research prototype DeepSeek’s Harness team has open-sourced dsh-superagent, a research prototype that receives development requests through GitHub and optionally Feishu, works on them in separate sessions, and returns…

11.02

The New StackGitHubOpen-source security in the AI exploit era: Patch without changing a thing Here’s how a vulnerability in a popular open-source library plays out in 2026: A maintainer merges a fix and publishes an advisory.

11.01

Hacker News ShowGitHubShow HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust

11.01

Tom's Hardware AISiliconDept of Justice reportedly probes Nvidia over $13 billion Hugging Face AI platform acquisition Nvidia is reportedly facing questions from the United States Department of Justice over whether its purchase of Hugging Face will have an impact on competition in the growing AI space.

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