Chinese AI laboratory DeepSeek published a research paper on 1st January 2026 introducing Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (mHC), a novel architecture designed to improve AI model performance whilst minimising training costs. The paper, co-authored by DeepSeek founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng, has been cited as a potential game changer in developing AI
Elon Musk announced on the X platform that xAI has open-sourced the Grok 2.5 AI model, which was the company’s best-performing model last year, and released the model weights on Hugging Face. Musk also stated that the source code for Grok 3 would be made public in around
The phenomenon of openwashing poses a serious threat to the AI industry, companies, and users alike, as more AI models falsely appear as open source. The Linux Foundation AI & Data Generative AI Commons recently created the Model Openness Framework, which defines three levels of openness to ensure genuine transparency.
Spain-based Multiverse Computing unveiled two extremely small yet high-performing AI models on August 14, 2025, which they humorously categorised into a Model Zoo family because they're comparable in size to a fly's and chicken's brain. The company's SuperFly model contains just 94
On June 17, 2025, the government announced Hungary's updated AI strategy and the establishment of the Hungarian Artificial Intelligence Office (MMIH), a move that has sparked significant debate in professional circles. The revision of the original strategy, adopted in 2020, was necessitated by significant changes in AI technologies
Tokyo-based Sakana AI, co-founded by former top Google AI scientists, unveiled the Continuous Thought Machine (CTM) on May 12, 2025. The CTM is the first artificial neural network that uses neuron synchronisation as its core reasoning mechanism, enabling AI to "think" through problems step-by-step. This represents a significant
