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Toronto startup smartARM has shown a bionic arm prototype that uses a palm camera and Meta's open-source vision model DINOv2 to recognize objects and pick its own grip, in a video posted to Meta's newsroom on September 16. A few photos teach it a new object, and Meta AI glasses become a second pair of eyes.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on September 13 that China would take the lead in building a BRICS AI open-source community. It topped a list of five cooperation initiatives, and the intelligent-manufacturing item included the words standards and norms.
Developer-tools company Unstable Build released the full source of its Rune IDE under the GPLv3 on September 12. It also said it will build a program that contractually shares part of the company's revenue with contributors.
Give it a written instruction and it produces a voice, then changes the emotion and delivery. The code and weights are out under an MIT license, and a distilled version that answers in four steps shipped alongside it.
AlphaGenome Atlas precomputes every single-base change in the genome as a 1-petabyte dataset, now open to researchers worldwide
NVIDIA, long a chip seller, is buying open-model marketplace Hugging Face and picking up the distribution channel along with it
Anthropic released a tutorial showing how to bundle skills, hooks, and MCP servers into a single-line install
Ten days after teaming up with France's Mistral, Saudi Arabia's state AI company has now built on a Chinese open model
NVIDIA has agreed to buy Hugging Face, the largest repository of open models, for $12,930,300,000. Why did a company that turned down a $500 million investment last year hand over the whole company just a year later?
Built with HHMI Janelia, the map covers 166,000 neurons and 125 million synapses, making it the largest connectome ever produced
Anthropic has published shopping and merchant agents, along with four example verticals — retail, travel, telecom, and entertainment — as full code on GitHub. But the part of the code that got the most attention wasn't revenue generation. It was the mechanism that keeps the model from ever touching money.
An audit of 16 benchmarks and roughly 34,000 items found many "safety" scores were actually tangled up with reasoning skill
