Ai2 unveiled Molmo 2, a new open-source AI model that can analyze video with precision — tracking objects, counting events, and pinpointing exactly where and when things happen in a clip. The advanced vision system offers an open alternative to closed video models from Google,

Shifting in the global AI race is happening in open-source software. China’s open-weight LLMs is creating a form of functional parity that neither side openly predicted.

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg, months into building one of the priciest teams in technology history, is getting personally involved in day-to-day work and pivoting the company’s focus to an artificial intelligence model customers pay to use.

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and high-efficiency deployment. The release includes two models in "large" and "small" sizes:

ZDNET's key takeaways Mistral 3 is designed for customization and privacy. Its smaller multimodal models can run on single GPUs.Mistral hopes the models create "distributed intelligence." Another open-source model has joined the ever-expanding AI race,

The new models can pinpoint events in space and time within a video, count and track frames and produce captions.

Deepseek version 3.2 packs 671B parameters with 37B active at inference, giving you faster tool use and lower run costs on long tasks.

For most enterprises, Devstral Small 2 will serve either as a low-friction way to prototype—or as a pragmatic bridge until licensing for Devstral 2 becomes feasible. It is not a drop-in replacement for the flagship, but it may be “good enough” in specific production slices, particularly when paired with Vibe CLI.

Meta is reportedly working on a new model, known inside of Meta as "Avocado," which could mark a shift away from open source.