open source

Ai2’s Molmo: Open Source Outperforms Closed Multimodal Models

The common wisdom is that companies like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with bottomless cash reserves and hundreds of top-tier researchers, are the only ones that can make a state-of-the-art foundation model. But as one among them famously noted, they “have…

Mistral introduces free tier for AI model testing.

Mistral AI launched a new free tier to let developers fine-tune and build test apps with the startup’s AI models, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday. The startup also slashed prices for developers to access its AI models…