News / #open-source Tag Open source 500 articles archived under #open-source · RSS Sign in to follow r/LocalLLaMA community 8d ago i just spent weeks rewriting my webUI from scratch, getting rid of all AI slop within the codebase and switching it over to a proper lightweight framework (alpine.js). i am now comfortable suggesting it as an alternative to openwebUI, librechat and the like! it is made for local… [Fully open source under GPL3, made from the ground up for use with local models, no subscriptions, no corporate backing] When i first started this, it was meant to be a fully lightweight, extremely modular alternative to openclaw, hermes and the like , and it still is! But i… 19 arXiv — Machine Learning research 8d ago CheMLFlow: An Open-Source Platform for Cheminformatics and Materials Informatics Applications arXiv:2608.04942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: CheMLFlow is an open-source platform for building and executing end-to-end, high-throughput, and agentic workflows for scientific and technological applications. CheMLFlow targets a common bottleneck in scientific machine learning… 34 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 8d ago EmpaAva: An Open-source Agentic 3D-Avatar Empathetic Live Chatbot arXiv:2608.04709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents EmpaAva, to our knowledge the first open-source, agentic 3D-avatar empathetic chatbot, which carries empathetic response generation (ERG) from text-only exchanges into live, face-to-face interaction. Through a… 33 r/LocalLLaMA community 8d ago Zuck will "share more on open source" soon   submitted by   /u/realmvp77 [link]   [comments] 16 r/LocalLLaMA community 8d ago Prime Agent - a new coding harness surpassing Codex/CC/PI Prime Agent is an open-source coding and research agent for general and long-running work. A self-improving RLM harness for coding and long-running autonomous tasks. Designed to be both token-efficient and expressive through programmatic tool calling, context as a variable,… 18 r/LocalLLaMA community 8d ago Inkling-Small 276B-A12B at ~2.9 tok/s on <10gb memory A follow up to the launch of Mference , it now supports and runs Inkling-Small 276B-A12B . Inkling-Small (Thinking Machines, Apache 2.0), from the pipenetwork/Inkling-Small-MLX-4bit conversion: 276B total, ~12B active, 3.4 GB resident set , ~148 GB on disk. Measured on my M5,… 6 r/MachineLearning community 8d ago Running Whisper, Qwen3-ASR, Nemotron & MOSS completely offline on iPhone [P] Over the past month, I've been building LiveTranscriber, an open-source iOS app for running modern speech and language models entirely on-device. The goal was to see whether recent open-source models could be turned into a practical mobile product—not just technical demos.… 8 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 9d ago libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months Article URL: https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176606 Points: 216 # Comments: 27 10 r/LocalLLaMA community 9d ago No more SLM open-source?? https://x.com/xiong_hui_chen/status/2084695353346117760?s=20   submitted by   /u/Capital-Remove-6150 [link]   [comments] 38 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 9d ago Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171268 Points: 307 # Comments: 74 7 r/LocalLLaMA community 9d ago Deepseek V4 flash 0731 ranks #21 on Agent Arena https://preview.redd.it/522fsdwvtdhh1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=6a6cf7a467514167a8193029dbd20fb3a9ba4f6c It ranks lower than both Sonnet 4.6 and Luna. I'd wager Luna costs in the same ballpark as DS4F considering Luna’s token efficiency. DeepSeek being open source is… 30 Smol AI News news-outlet 10d ago not much happened today **Alibaba** launched **Qwen3.8-Max**, enhancing multimodal capabilities and agent ecosystem integration. **NVIDIA** introduced **Alpamayo 2 Super** for autonomous vehicle reasoning, while **Mistral AI** released **Shieldstral**, a 3B parameter open-weights safety model for… 17 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 10d ago Semantic Alignment of AI Models: Concept Collapse, Checkpoint Dynamics, and Cross-Lingual Transfer arXiv:2608.01585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language model benchmarking is a difficult task. Outcome reasoning alone does not test the model's conceptualization of language and popular open-source benchmarks are quickly saturated or ingested as training data. It is important… 7 Latent.Space news-outlet 10d ago [AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork Qwen is so back! 9 r/LocalLLaMA community 10d ago The Chinese labs everyone lumps together are making four pretty different bets. I work at one of them. Every time a model drops from a Chinese lab the thread fills with people who already know who made it, and the guess is usually Alibaba. There was a thread here recently asking what separates the open source labs from the frontier labs. It ran to nearly sixty comments and hardly… 30 Simon Willison community 10d ago Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) My comment on Devtools must be open source (exe.dev) — Hacker News. One of the arguments for open source software for end-users has always been the freedom to examine and modify how that software works. The reality for most people - even expert programmers - has been that… 33 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 10d ago MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video Article URL: https://blog.comfy.org/p/minimax-h3-day-0-support-in-comfyui Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49155629 Points: 202 # Comments: 58 18 r/LocalLLaMA community 10d ago AI9Stars released G9v3-39A5B AI9Stars has released G9v3-39A5B an open weights language model designed to deliver even stronger reasoning capabilities than ai9stars/G9v3-3B with its 39B and 5 active experts. It is released under the Apache 2.0 license making it fully open for personal and commercial use It… 10 r/LocalLLaMA community 11d ago Qwen 3.8 is live now. Update: And yes, Qwen3.8-27B is coming too. Next week! 2.4-trillion-parameter MoE flagship delivering a comprehensive leap in coding and professional work. Autonomously codes and delivers complete projects spanning 10+ days. Open weights coming soon! It is live at… 19 r/LocalLLaMA community 11d ago Anyone Used MiniMAx H3 yet? Open Weights are out today! I am curious if anyone have used it. I would love to feed it key frames and test if it can create in-between frames between my keys. Anyone have tried it, any thoughts?   submitted by   /u/Hannibalj2ca [link]   [comments] 14 Simon Willison community 12d ago Open letters about AI development Open letters about AI development I wrote this summary of the past few weeks of open letters as a section of my sponsors-only newsletter but I've decided to share it here as well. Open Weights and American AI Leadership was shepherded by Microsoft, dated July 24th, and signed by… 38 r/LocalLLaMA community 12d ago What’s next for Qwen open-source releases? Been using Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B quite extensively lately and honestly, I’m pretty happy with it. Also tried a few community improvements like Ornith 1.0, which add some interesting tweaks. That said, I’m curious about what the community expects next from Qwen’s open-source roadmap.… 8 r/MachineLearning community 12d ago How Symmetric Are the Insides of a Go Network? [R] I just now posted a small research / ML interp study on symmetries inside the neural nets for an open source Go-playing program that I maintain ("KataGo"). The rules of Go are completely symmetric under rotation/reflection, but such symmetry is not enforced in the models - the… 4 r/LocalLLaMA community 13d ago Rule Suggestion: "Open" models without weight releases should be tagged [no weights] A lot of recent models are being announced with promised open weights, but the weights are either weeks away, or in some cases (looking at you Meta) not being released at all. This sub is about local LLMs - not "maybe local in the future" llms. These models are still useful to… 26 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 14d ago AI-assisted pre-review of open-source software submissions: an experience report from BOSC 2026 arXiv:2607.27228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most conferences rely on peer-review of submissions, but as generative AI makes it easier than ever to prepare submission materials, some conferences are seeing an overwhelming surge of submissions. We wanted to see if generative… 19 r/LocalLLaMA community 14d ago Open Source Ternary LLM Engine in Rust/CUDA for Quantization, Serving, and Training of models on consumer GPUs, called Tritium (Apache 2.0) This post was not written by a clanker. Hey guys, I'm a comp sci major who wanted to introduce a cool project I built for quantizing models to ternary (1.58 bit) with as minimal of loss as possible, a process that can provide even more than 10x reductions in VRAM usage and much… 25 r/LocalLLaMA community 14d ago Minimax-H3 video model released, open weights coming in the next few days https://x.com/MiniMax_AI/status/2083006198828417501?s=20 Quote from their article: Today, we're launching MiniMax H3, a general-purpose multimodal generation model. H3 understands unified context across text, images, video, and audio, generating video with native stereo sound,… 12 ThursdAI news-outlet 14d ago This Week in AI: Open Weights, Frontier Models, Sandbox Escapes, Voice & AI Detection From CoreWeave: Alex is back to cover a crazy end of July week, with Kimi K3, Opus 5, 3 open letters, one asking for pacing AI progress and 3 guests! Tune in 36 r/LocalLLaMA community 14d ago America Needs An Open-Source AI Strategy — CNBC Pretty incredible to see open-weight become a mainstream discussion.   submitted by   /u/Recoil42 [link]   [comments] 38 r/LocalLLaMA community 14d ago LG AI Research releases K-EXAONE 2.0 750B A37B It was developed under Phase 2 of Korea's Sovereign AI Foundation Model Project. Size: 750B parameters (3x larger than their 236B v1 model). - License: Apache 2.0 Languages: Expanded to 10 languages (Korean, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Spanish, German,… 21 r/LocalLLaMA community 14d ago Mechanistic interpretability streamlined for everyday users like us😎 🧠 Context: I want to give the community an Open Research (well open under Apache 2.0 clause) - tool that allows everyday users like us to look deeper into the local models we use consistently. Mechanistic interpretability streamlined into a more visible work-flow. Easy to read for… 26 r/LocalLLaMA community 14d ago Turbo-fieldfare: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on Apple Silicon Its a custom Swift/Metal inference engine that runs Gemma 4 26B-A4B-IT on M-series Macs with very low RAM. It uses ~2GB instead of ~14 GB. The result is reportedly 5–6 tok/s on an 8 GB M2 MacBook Air and 31–35 tok/s on an M5 MacBook Pro. It also includes an OpenAI-compatible… 11 r/LocalLLaMA community 14d ago Think of the children, another excuse for them to go after open source AI Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20260728093051/https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971723/hugging-face-nudify-deepfake-undress-women-children   submitted by   /u/MaruluVR [link]   [comments] 33 arXiv — Machine Learning research 15d ago Sky sphere representation in language models arXiv:2607.27092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We analyze whether language models of size ~100B have a representation of the night sky map that is decodable from their residual stream. We find that most of the considered open-source models do have such a representation, and it… 12 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 15d ago MediaWiki Code2Code Search: Neural Retrieval for the Semantic Discovery of Open-Source Software Entities arXiv:2607.26766v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Code search in large-scale ecosystems is often hindered by the lexical gap between user queries and implementation details, alongside the trade-off between the low latency of traditional Information Retrieval (IR) and the… 5 Vercel — AI dev-tools 15d ago Shopify and Vercel are rebuilding Hydrogen for faster storefronts Shopify and Vercel Open source and runtime agnostic, runs anywhere JavaScript does Standard Actions brings agentic commerce to every storefront Feature development cut from months to a week for retailers like Global Retail Brands Shopify powers commerce for millions of merchants… 30 r/MachineLearning community 15d ago I built ganfs: A Python package that uses GANs to automate feature selection for high-dimensional datasets. (No domain expert required) [P] [R] Hey everyone, I recently open-sourced a new Python package called ganfs (Generative Adversarial Network Feature Selection), and I wanted to share it with the community. The Problem: Selecting the best features in high-dimensional datasets is often a massive bottleneck.… 21 r/MachineLearning community 15d ago Open-source tabular model validation toolkit TanML needs feedback [D] We’re developing TanML, an MIT-licensed automated model-validation toolkit for tabular machine-learning models. TanML runs locally and provides an end-to-end workflow covering data profiling, preprocessing, feature-power ranking, model development, evaluation, drift analysis,… 5 r/LocalLLaMA community 15d ago The open-weights carousel never stops.   submitted by   /u/InternationalGap3698 [link]   [comments] 10 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 15d ago Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice Article URL: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/keychron-announces-first-open-source-firmware-for-gaming-mice Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099715 Points: 213 # Comments: 87 4 r/LocalLLaMA community 15d ago I tested proven orchestration techniques on small local models. 90% failed. The 10% that survived roughly doubled task completion. Hey localllama brochacos, what's up? I'm u/raydestar , long time local llm fan. SWE with about 10 years xp, and I have been cranking hard trying to skill up with agentic AI recently. Since open weights got good, it's just blown my mind. What's been hard to understand is "Why… 26 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 15d ago Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac Hi HN, I built a specialized inference engine for running 4-bit Gemma 4 26B-A4B-IT on any M-series Mac using about 2 GB of RAM. It is called TurboFieldfare and is written in Swift and Metal. I have always adored on-device AI. It feels like magic that you can run a powerful NN on… 29 r/LocalLLaMA community 16d ago Agenta: an open-source Claude Cowork alternative where you can use self-hosted models (and any harness) Hey r/LocalLLaMA, I’m Mahmoud from Agenta. We built a self-hosted, more flexible, alternative to Claude Cowork . This short video shows how it works. I use it to build AI coworkers for my startup, like the marketing agent in the video. Or AI automations, like a daily report to… 33 r/LocalLLaMA community 16d ago Should we be calling Elon a liar? Last year he said grok 3 would be open sourced in about 6 months. A year later and nada. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1959379349322313920   submitted by   /u/Terminator857 [link]   [comments] 21 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 16d ago Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates annual recurring revenue of $21 million. 4 r/LocalLLaMA community 16d ago Sorry, but did Dario just say that closed-weights, in-secret models are worse than open-weights ones?   submitted by   /u/BritishDudeGuy [link]   [comments] 7 Latent.Space news-outlet 17d ago [AINews] Much ado about Open Weights Everyone is writing a lot, but only Kimi K3 shipped today 20 r/MachineLearning community 17d ago Mix local LLMs, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and more in one SDLC pipeline (open source) [P] A lot of AI coding tools assume one model should do everything: understand the task, write the code, review it, and decide whether it is correct. I ended up building something around the opposite idea. Instead of one model doing the whole software development lifecycle, every… 22 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 17d ago From Proprietary to Open-Source: Bridging the Distribution Gap via Multi-Agent Protocol Distillation in Agentic Search Abstract Agentic search enables large language models to solve knowledge-intensive tasks by interleaving multi-step reasoning with retrieval, yet optimizing this with outcome-based reinforcement learning (RL) provides only sparse supervision. Knowledge distillation can supply… 15 r/LocalLLaMA community 17d ago First evidence of a pending qwen3.7 open weights release. Qwen3.7-flash is on open router. They referred to Qwen3.6-35b-a3b as Qwen3.6 flash so this is likely a small MoE. The prices are substantially cheaper than 3.6 flash with a native 1M context window.   submitted by   /u/fulgencio_batista [link]   [comments] 37 Page 2 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
