Open Source AI
(81 articles)ROCm vs Vulkan Performance: Mi50 Benchmark (4 Models)
New benchmarks pit ROCm 7 nightly against Vulkan on an AMD Mi50 32GB running llama.cpp. Vulkan wins short-context dense inference, but ROCm dominates...
CRYSTAL Benchmark Exposes How AI Models Fake Reasoning
A new benchmark tested 20 multimodal AI models and found 19 of them cherry-pick reasoning steps while skipping actual thinking. The gap between accuracy and...
OpenAI Buys Astral: 5 Things Python Devs Must Know
OpenAI is acquiring Astral, the company behind uv and Ruff, to supercharge Codex. Here's what it means for the Python ecosystem, open source, and the AI coding...
Google's $12.5M AI Open Source Security Push, Explained
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic are pooling $12.5 million to secure open source software — and Google's AI tools Big Sleep and CodeMender are already...
6 Best Uncensored GGUF Models to Run Locally in 2026
The Qwen3.5-9B uncensored GGUF scene just got interesting. We ranked the top distilled, uncensored models you can actually run on consumer hardware — no cloud,...
NousCoder-14B vs Claude Code: Open-Source Coding Model Benchmark Showdown
Nous Research's NousCoder-14B benchmark score hits 67.87% on LiveCodeBench v6 — beating every open-source rival at its weight class. Here's how it stacks up...
Nvidia Nemotron Super 3 122B License Update: Rug-Pull Clauses Removed
Nvidia stripped restrictive guardrail termination clauses from the Nemotron Super 3 122B license. Here's exactly what changed, why it matters for production...
Goose vs Claude Code: Why Developers Are Switching to the Free Alternative
In the Goose vs Claude Code debate, developers are increasingly choosing the free alternative. Claude Code costs up to $200/month with rate limits — Goose...
Qwen3.5-9B vs GPT: Document OCR Benchmarks & Weak Spot
Benchmark data shows Qwen3.5-9B beats frontier models on OCR and field extraction, yet stumbles badly on tables. Here's the honest breakdown.