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,

Nemotron-3 Nano (available now): A highly efficient and accurate model. Though it’s a 30 billion-parameter model, only 3 billion parameters are active at any time, allowing it to fit onto smaller form-factor GPUs, such as the L40S.

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.

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.

ZDNET key takeaways Nvidia's Nemotron 3 claims advances in accuracy and cost efficiency.Reports suggest Meta is leaning away from open-source technology.Nvidia argues it's more open than Meta with data transparency.

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:

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.

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