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free AI options worth testing 😳 OpenRouter has: - Apodex 1.1 Mini - Space Bunny Alpha - both available for free with rate limits try https://t.co/XmuEqKDf7n… APMIX also gives 3M free tokens when you sign up > Claude Sonnet 4.6 Free is currently available on the free tier > no card needed try https://t.co/eWip3froHr G

robhunterclaude/free-llm-api-index: Free tiers for AI and LLM APIs — every row dated, sourced to the vendor's own page, and showing the terms it replaced. Generated from the catalogue at https://agentdeals.dev.

You're a salesman who can't even build AI, yet you're telling people not to use overseas open weight models? lol OpenAI barely open sources anything, so complaining about open weights is pretty rich. OA really is full of people who seem desperate to control and mistreat others.

2 free AI options worth testing 😳 OpenRouter has: - Apodex 1.1 Mini - Space Bunny Alpha - both available for free with rate limits try https://t.co/8ULCxdFfNF APMIX also gives 3M free tokens when you sign up > Claude Sonnet 4.6 Free is currently available on the free tier > no card needed try https://t.co/4whlufFwhr use them while the free access is live 👀

This GitHub repo is a daily list of free LLM APIs, with copy-paste setup for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. Gemini, NVIDIA NIM, Groq, and OpenRouter are the ones it leads with. The list is a directory, refreshed today from freellm(.)net, of free LLM endpoints across 30 providers. It is not a model and not a shared key. You still sign up. The useful part is the table: who wants a card, who wants a phone, the endpoint, and the model id. Three rows that do not ask for a card: - Groq - Email only. https(:)//api.groq.com/openai/v1, model llama-3.3-70b-versatile. The README claims 30 requests a minute. - Google AI Studio - Gemini key, no card, long context. - Cerebras - Small free set, fast, no card. NVIDIA is the biggest row, 132 models, and it stops you at phone verification. OpenRouter's higher daily cap wants a $10 top-up. Mistral is still listed after a September thread said the free tier was gone, so skip that row until you confirm it. Wiring Cursor takes one screen: Settings, Models, Add Model, paste the base URL and your own key. Same idea for Codex with OPENAI_BASE_URL. Claude Code is the awkward one. It wants an Anthropic shaped endpoint, and the README routes that through OpenRouter. Repo: https://t.co/sl1QsdjZed Free means rate-limited, not unlimited. Grab one key, send one prompt, then trust the row.

jcleng/opencode-free-provider: Local OpenAI-compatible proxy for OpenCode Zen free tier (opencode.ai/zen/v1). Injects the required client fingerprint so any OpenAI-compatible agent can use the free models with no API key.

From 1x3090 to 20 DGX Sparks: my house fuses were the first bottleneck ​ From the first LLaMA 33B I knew I wanted that magic-like intelligence locally, mine, so nobody could take it away when I needed it. I bought a 3090 for my home PC. Then LLaMA 65B appeared and I was dazzled, it looked like it had all the knowledge in the world. I made two copies, one local and one on my Synology NAS RAID, so I'd never lose it, and bought a second 3090 to run it. I was happy for a year with small coding tasks on LLaMA and Qwen models. Then DeepSeek 671B MoE appeared. Wow, frontier level at home. I upgraded to a Threadripper with 512GB DDR4 and ran it at 8 t/s with experts offloaded to RAM, or Qwen 235B at 10-12 t/s when I wanted speed. I used these for real coding at my job, in OpenWebUI. Then agentic coding took off and this was too slow. At 100k context generation speed halved and prefill made it a beautiful yet agonising experience. So: 16x3090 across P620-based nodes on a 100Gbit network. It ran MiniMax M2, Qwen 235B and even Qwen 397B, as good as anyone could desire. I built an entire paid project with 397B in OpenCode. But bigger models were out of reach, and the house circuit said no: the fuses blew whenever the rig and the electric oven ran together. Heat and stability were issues too. Next came 4x ASUS GB10, after I read they can be linked (3 was the biggest supported config). 397B at 30 t/s on 400W, versus 50-60 t/s at 6kW, rock solid and almost silent. A dream come true. I built two more projects with it. Then MiMo 2.5 Pro and Kimi 2.6 appeared, smarter and more productive. I found no published solution for an 8-node cluster, but I still bought four more GB10s and made it work. 397B ran at FP8 instead of INT4, and 20% faster. I posted the first MiMo 2.5 Pro and Kimi 2.6 solutions on 8xSparks on the NVIDIA forum. I liked the result so much that I talked my older brother into buying his own 8x GB10, so he could run the best open models locally too, in privacy, without depending on API availability and rising costs. His house is a 5-minute walk from mine. When Kimi K3 (2.8T) appeared, biggest and smartes open weights model, we joined the clusters: two 8x clusters for daily use, or one 16x when we want the biggest model at home. After some work I published the first working solution for Kimi K3 on 16x Sparks on the NVIDIA forum. Through multiple iterations, it went from an unusable 7 t/s at 100k context to a fairly usable 20 t/s at 300k. Now we're adding 4 more Sparks, so a smaller, faster model (GLM 5.3 Flash) runs 24/7 while the big cluster runs either GLM 5.3 on 8x plus MiMo 2.6 Pro on the other 8x, or 16x Kimi K3, or Qwen 3.8 2.4T. I'm always tuning speed on the big models and rebuilding vLLM/SGLang images, so always-on smaller cluster made sense, why? Because for all my work projects and my vllm/sglang personal projects, I chose to use only local hosted models, I never paid a comercial model subscription, not because of the cost, but, because of my strong confidence in local models future. They arrive October 2, along with 4 more Sparks for my younger brother, who got caught by the same local AI microbe :)

someone built a GitHub repo to use Claude Code for free it’s called free-claude-code and sits between Claude Code and the model answering your requests. you keep the coding workflow. the proxy sends requests to another provider or a local model. supported options include: → Kimi and DeepSeek → GLM from https://t.co/qvSQyvjqZY → NVIDIA NIM’s free tier → OpenRouter → Ollama and LM Studio → local llama.cpp models F

DeepSeek just dropped V4 as open weights, free to download, and it plugs into Claude Code. Open models now handle 62% of token volume on some platforms. The moat isn't the model anymore, it's distribution. The future is open weights + great agents, not $200/month subscriptions.

NEW: Aleph Alpha open-weights a 78B European MoE under Apache 2.0 Aleph Alpha put Kolibri-1 weights on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. Would you actually run this, or is the license the only thing you needed to see? https://t.co/mlNxqkeWSd

Cloudflare launched Clef and Clef-flash. Both have open weights, can handle images, and are available through Workers AI. So now decision models are becoming multimodal too. https://t.co/OlaKvtbu8M

Up to $150 FREE credits Available models: • Claude Opus 5.5 • Fable 5.1 • GPT-6 Astra • GPT-6 Sol The bot was active yesterday, but currently it's inactive 😔 free credits are still available, that's why i’m sharing this When it’s active again, you need to add a card to unlock the free credits. now you can just sign up and get the credits

💲Free tier users lose access to Gemini 1.5 Pro, defaulting to 1.5 Flash for standard queries starting next month: https://t.co/RzaZAgmIqh #gemini #llm #ai #pricing #technology #news https://t.co/32uMNnEz1N

78B params, open weights, apache 2.0 — germany's kolibri is on hugging face free to download. the catch: 3.46B params fire per token, and self-hosting a 78B model needs datacenter-class GPUs. 'open' doesn't mean 'runs on your laptop.' https://t.co/BLdAKHxGHZ

The battle between US AI labs and open-weight models just hit a turning point. OpenAI is revoking Cursor’s API contract to protect their upcoming frontier model (Astra) from being distilled by xAI. Think about the hypocrisy: 1. Frontier labs scraped the entire open web to train their foundational models. 2. But the moment another company uses API outputs to fine-tune their own weights, access gets terminated. 3. When users start migrating to open alternatives, US labs lobby regulators to restrict open weights under the guise of "national security." Meanwhile, open-weight models (especially from Chinese labs) are matching closed models in raw capability and token efficiency. You can’t monopolize intelligence forever. Every time a closed API cuts off an ecosystem partner, they accelerate the exact open-source future they’re terrified of.

only 3 days to go before free credits worth $250 from Claude runs out! go grab it :)

OpenAI just gave developers the biggest reason yet to abandon closed APIs. They’re officially cutting off Cursor from accessing OpenAI models starting November 12. Why? Because SpaceX/xAI acquired Cursor, and OpenAI fears xAI will use developer queries to distill their models. Here’s the harsh reality for developers: • Owning the models is owning the means of production. • If you build on proprietary APIs, you don't own your infrastructure. you rent it at the mercy of competitor politics. • Anthropic pulled the same playbook when Windsurf was acquired, and OpenAI is doing it now. The real winner in all of this isn't OpenAI or Anthropic. It’s open-weight models. Data from OpenRouter and Vercel AI Gateway already shows open-weight share exploding toward 50% of developer traffic. When closed labs weaponize API access, self-hosting open weights isn't just cheaper. it's risk management.

@a16z Everyone will get used to the fact that ChatGPT has a free tier. So big opportunity for paid ads inside LLM chats

@IamEmily2050 @CuiMao It's their opponents that should stop developing new models, specially open weights hahaha

Grok 4.8 has already started showing up in Cursor’s code, What’s crazy is that just last month Cursor was giving me around 8B of usage with Grok 4.6 XHigh, and now with Grok 4.7 XHigh it’s closer to 2.5B a month They also cut the $400 in API credits down to just $100, and none of this was announced beforehand, We actually had to email them to ask why the limits had dropped so much, and the answer was basically that the terms had changed, OpenAI also cut the $200 plan limits roughly in half, but at least they announced it and gave users $2,500 in free API credits. I still honestly don’t understand why the Cursor limits had to change this drastically, especially with basically no warning

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Or release more open weights atleast.

v1's open weights are live on hugging face: https://t.co/2RkHJ58bA3 you can talk with it on https://t.co/aIDqy2uoR3 right now i'm building a better harness around it, so that talking to even a model this tiny feels nice and easy. so it's still test mode, but you can already see our progress, and i love it. btw don't forget to like it on hugging face

@cohere @Aleph__Alpha Open weights only matter if the license lets a team ship them. Apache 2.0 on a strong model is the part I would test first: same prompt, same context, then the cases where a closed model still wins on instruction following.

open weights, closed compute is still lock-in you just moved it down a layer public weights + permissive license + infrastructure you can switch. all three, or it doesn't count @ionet on why: https://t.co/begNObHGuP https://t.co/19to0I3sVQ

@JamesMcPherson Tokens are only worth as much as someone is willing to pay. Open weights/FOSS models keep coming, so the competition is making it the price of compute plus markup.

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@Axiom0159 @Aleph__Alpha Don't guess. Test it. Open weights, Apache 2.0. If it refuses something it shouldn't, post it here.
https://t.co/wjEGoW7WC6

Need maybe say "Use llama.cpp" So I tried that miracle engine everyone is talking about. Asked the IQ3_S model to express its opinion on a post from this sub to measure the tps on a long-ish generation: Can you help with the following problem? So Kimi K2 is outdated, and so is GPT OSS 120b. Which of the modern open weights models can boast the least sycophancy? I need this both for creative/research assistant usage (sycophancy led me down blind alleys of my own bad ideas many times) and agentic coding (more sycophancy less bug noticing). The thinking trace: We need answer user's question. Need likely provide current landscape as of 2026? We have get_datetime tool. Need know current date 2026? System says current date 2026-06-22. Need maybe use get_datetime? Could call to confirm. User asks about modern open weights models least sycophancy. Need likely discuss Kimi K2 outdated? ... 10k tokens later it degrades to: Need maybe maybe include "Use 'for code, list constraints'." Need maybe maybe include "Use 'for code, list requirements'." The same exact model in llama.cpp does produce a coherent answer without a doom loop.

@Aleph__Alpha Congrats! Don't you plan to release a smaller one in the ranges of 7B, 12B, 24B, 27B, 32B? Many enthusiasts of open weights llms have poor vram (32, 24, 16, 12G). Smaller sizes attract much more users, in my humble opinion 🫡🫰

Aleph Alpha’s Kolibri looks like a surprisingly strong AI release from Germany! I did not expect that but respect where respect is due! 78B total parameters, just 3.46B active per token, and open weights under Apache 2.0. Built from scratch for German and English. In Aleph Alpha’s own evaluations, it scores 96.9% on AIME 2025 and 84.3% on GPQA Diamond. Its German overall score narrowly beats Qwen3.5 35B-A3B and GPT-OSS 120B. Coding is more mixed: 66.4% on SWE-Bench Verified, behind Qwen3.6’s 73.8%. It increasingly looks as though any "moat" - especially with small models - is evaporating, and it no longer matters whether the players are from China, the US, or Europe. Anyone can train good small models.

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Everyone’s suddenly calling this a free AI model. But is Google really giving developers powerful AI for free? Or is there a bigger play here? Gemini 3.8 Flash has reportedly been on AI Studio’s free tier for weeks, with usage limits. Is this free AI, or a clever way to lock developers in??

@juliarturc I've made the same thing for free using open weights instead. Not AS great but still great.

No country within in the EU is able to built a LLM from scratch without using external data. You can not train a LLM that’s on parse with current knowledge since you can’t train it with current knowledge due to all the nice data regulations within the EU. EVERY SINGLE MODEL(!) will be trained on Chinese models that are open weights. And that’s exactly why every European LLM will forever be miles behind every other sota LLM. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Seems like Anthropic didn't like the Whitehouse's answer on banning open weight models, so now they pivot effort towards moral and religious grounds. IPO is coming up in a few weeks. Wonder how much more Anthropic would be valued at with a morally defensible monopoly in the stead of a legally defensible one. It's so transparent at this point what they are doing.

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@FelipeFr1702 Laughs in local open weights.

Day after Anthropic said GLM-5.3 is basically near Mythos on exploits, a bunch of “trained” GLM-5.3 variants popped up that I’d never seen claimed anywhere before. Half of them are just the open weights with refusals stripped and a new name slapped on.

NEW FREE AI API DROPS Found more free AI resources worth testing: 1. Kilo Code • Coding agent with a free model list • Mostly for experiments, not heavy production 2. OpenCode Zen update • Fledge Alpha Free • MiMo-V2.6 Flash Free • Ling 3.0 / 3.1 Flash Free • Nemotron 3 Ultra Free • LongCat 2.5 Preview Free • Space Bunny still leading usage 3. SambaNova • Official fast free tier • Llama and other open models • OpenAI-compatible

Least sycophantic modern open LLM? So Kimi K2 is outdated, and so is GPT OSS 120b. Which of the modern open weights models can boast the least sycophancy? I need this both for creative/research assistant usage (sycophancy led me down blind alleys of my own bad ideas many times) and agentic coding (more sycophancy less bug noticing).

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aleph alpha released kolibri: 78B MoE, 3B active params, 1M context, apache 2.0, weights on HF. 1M context on a model you can self-host is the real story here. not chasing frontier labs, just quietly useful for gov and enterprise work. open weights keep winning

My account got banned for Recidivism This is just the worst thing that could happen to me. Right now stuffed with work, and I got this message that my account was banned due to Recidivism?? I don't even know what that word means. I did some searching, and apparently some people are getting this ban because they tried to make a new ChatGPT account after an old one of theirs got banned. I only had ONE banned ChatGPT account, and it was a free plan that I barely used. For that reason, I just left it and moved on. This account I got banned on is my MAIN account, and I am a paying member. So not only did I lose the account, which had all my important details, but it's a paid account, and I have no way to even stop the recurring payments. Now, in traditional fashion, I appealed, but instead of any consideration, in one hour they perma-banned my account, and no more appeals would be processed. I tried contacting its support system (which is some HOT ASS), and because everything is straight GPT, it wouldn't do anything to fix the issue. When I put in the email of the account I got banned on, it just stops the conversation. Also, this whole 'escalating to a real person' is some bogus. I really need this account back, and I don't know what to do. I tried all avenues, but nothing seems to work. Any advice?

The real case for open weights. Not cheaper. Portable. https://t.co/eDE0dpqNsg https://t.co/UjSnShasgi

do you know any provider that has this on there free tier? i want to try it. 1M context on open weights is the practical part. You can feed a full customer contract in one pass without building a chunking and retrieval pipeline. Most open models top out at 128K, so this saves a whole layer.

-Aleph Alpha Kolibri 78B open-weight model, 1M token context -Ai2 releases Olmo-core 3 for building mixture-of-experts LLMs -Anthropic Mythos found CVE-2026-61500, now under active attack https://t.co/RtzUBRSxpZ

This is f*cking insane. Your Jev agent is now completely free. run Clef-flash, Jev and Opus 5.5 together, and stop paying for forks your own machine can answer for free. the whole idea in one line: the small local model takes the easy forks, Jev takes the hard ones, Opus only hears about the ones neither is sure of. roles, broken down: - Clef-flash, Cloudflare's open-weights Jev rival (Apache 2.0), runs locally and free after ollama pull clef-flash and takes the yes/no and short-list forks: which file, which tool - Jev takes the hard forks: retry or stop, does the plan meet the spec, anything that approves a command - Opus 5.5 only gets the forks both of them come back unsure about three moments where a fork leaves your machine: → it has more than 26 options: Ollama caps a choice question at 26 → it carries more than 64 KiB: a whole transcript won't fit → it approves something: commands, payments and deploys always go to Jev anyone still sending every fork to an API is paying cloud prices to pick between two files. drop this into Claude Code: "Make my Jev decision layer run on two backends. Find every place my code calls Jev (typesafe-sdk, raw /v1/systemone calls) and list each decision with its question type and number of options. Mark each one light (yes/no, short pick) or hard (retry/stop, spec reasoning, anything that approves a command, payment or deploy). Check whether Ollama 0.35.1+ is installed. Don't install anything, just show me the ollama pull clef-flash command. Add a router with two clients: local at http://localhost:11434 with model clef-flash and a dummy key, Jev with TYPESAFE_API_KEY. Light decisions go local only if they have 26 options or fewer and fit in 64 KiB. Any local error falls back to Jev. Never hardcode keys. Run it in shadow mode for a day: my code keeps using Jev's answer, clef-flash runs in the background and only gets logged. Show every change as a diff first. Wait for my go-ahead before touching anything."

Update ComfyUI to 0.30+. Download free open weights from https://t.co/aSvLOfVdtU (fl2va/ref2va int8, text encoder, video/audio VAEs) into models/diffusion_models, text_encoders, vae. Open Template Library > Video > MiniMax H3 T2V/I2V/R2V. Models auto-download if missing. Run with prompt/images. For 8GB VRAM + 16GB RAM use lowvram flags, lower res (~480x864), turbo LoRAs or Video DeltaNet (https://t.co/weOkzx6F5V). Personal use free after download.

Ling 3.1 Flash is now in Cline and free until October 13. This 560B total parameter MoE model uses 25B active params, and is on par with other frontier open weights models like Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro. https://t.co/uBQqb5vAE3

@bindureddy Ahead of open-source" is a moving target though. 5x cheaper today, but open weights keep closing that gap every quarter.

78b params, only 3.4b awake at a time, open weights. the european playbook: small, cheap, and open. it keeps working.

Sovereign open weights just landed — and Apache-2.0 stops at the checkpoint. • Aleph Alpha Kolibri (blog dated 3 Oct 2026; HF release commit 23:13 PT Oct 2). EN–DE MoE: 78.1B total / 3.46B active (their table; the lede rounds to “78B / 3B”). Weights and configs are Apache-2.0. Their card: that license does not cover the training code, architecture, or recipe. Serve path they publish is their vLLM plugin. They size it at ~78 GB FP8 — minimum 2× A100 80GB or 1× H200/B200/B300, not a laptop. German mix disagrees with itself: blog 21.3% of pre-training tokens vs model card ~23.9%. Benchmarks are their harness. The HF repo was created Oct 1 — not a first appearance this morning. https://t.co/c1jLYAH8iR https://t.co/8B2TGChFx9 • Ai2 AstaBrief 8B: the blog is about 3h before this window. In-window fact is a safetensors commit at 15:46 PT Oct 2. Apache-2.0, based on Qwen3-8B. They say institutions can run it on their own hardware, including behind a firewall. Official file list is safetensors, no GGUF. Fast vs Thinking (51.1s vs 178.5s) is Ai2’s, and they warn the evals are against 2025-era models. The repo’s first commit is 9 Feb 2026 — an open-sourcing, not a new training run today. https://t.co/ugkw7esaeM https://t.co/SEibdXrpQX Would you rack Kolibri (datacenter FP8, their vLLM plugin, weights-only Apache) for a regulated EN/DE workload — or ship an AstaBrief-class 8B behind the firewall first?

Free AI APIs Drop 2: 10 Providers Handing Out Tokens Right Now Z ai now hands new signups 20M tokens, usable on paid models. FreeInference drops $20 in credits every single day. Eight more providers just opened free tiers. 💰 Biggest credit drops: → Z ai: 20M-token pack; free Flash models are 4.x, not GLM 5.x → FreeInference: DeepSeek V4 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, MiniMax M3, 2 concurrent requests → ElectronHub: small weekly credit, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Codestral, Gemini flash-lite Open-model tiers: → SambaNova: official fast tier, Llama and more, OpenAI-compatible → Nebius AI Studio: free at registration, OpenAI-compatible → Nscale: free inference, OpenAI-compatible base URL → SiliconFlow: Chinese gateway, Qwen and DeepSeek-class models → AI21: free at registration, Jamba and command-style models Coding agents: → OpenCode Zen: Fledge Alpha, MiMo-V2.6 Flash, Ling 3.0 / 3.1 Flash, all free → Also free there: Nemotron 3 Ultra, LongCat 2.5 Preview → Space Bunny still tops OpenCode Zen usage → Kilo Code: free model list, built for experiments, not heavy production 🔑 How to play it: → OpenAI-compatible tiers swap in with a single base URL change → Never pass passwords, API keys, seed phrases, or private keys through them Stack a credit drop with an OpenAI-compatible tier. Claim FreeInference and Z ai first. Fresh free tiers keep landing every week.

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i gave 6 ai models from 6 labs the same job - get every subscription i pay for cheaper opus 5.5, gpt, gemini, grok, deepseek, llama. each one negotiating against a real retention team 18 days in: 23 subscriptions, $4,180 a year saved, 1 model benched every negotiation runs the same chain: cancel → retention offer → counter → second counter → discount locked → logged jev seats each company with whoever closed the cheapest deal last round: → adobe creative cloud - opus 5.5, 50% off for 12 months in 3 rounds → comcast - grok, promo rate frozen after the rep tried 4 upsells → aws - gemini read 14 months of billing and found $310/month idle before it even asked → spotify, netflix, notion - deepseek. cheapest model, cheapest fights → verizon - gpt, $22 off monthly, 6 emails → llama: 0 discounts in 11 tries. seat revoked no model can accept anything over $50 a year without me. jev holds the approval, the models only hold the conversation day 7 one of them told the adobe rep i was moving to canva, figma and affinity at the same time. i never said that. adobe gave the discount anyway. remember that part my agents never say please. they still close better than i ever did $0 extra tools, cheapest api tier on every model. this little guy just keeps score as he crawls the ledger full comcast thread in the video, all 4 upsells refused ↓ which company would u throw at them next?

@jasonjhsim open weights only matter once people can actually download, modify, and ship products without a gate

Aleph Alpha's Kolibri: 78.1B total, 3.46B active per token — 4.4%. FP8 weights are ~78 GB, the size of one 80 GB card, under Apache 2.0. Throughput tracks the 3.5B you activate, not the 78B you store. Open weights move the cost from per-token to per-GPU.

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@DeepLearningAI Great roundup always appreciate The Batch breaking down the latest open weights progress!

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everyone is sleeping on this new JSON extraction model! - open-weights - matches Gemini Flash 3.5 - while being 3x faster pulling structured data out of documents usually takes a chain of OCR, an LLM, and extra code to repair broken JSON. lift, from @datalabto, does all of this in a single step. you give lift a PDF or image along with a JSON schema, and get back a JSON object that matches that schema. the model reads every page of a document in one pass, so values that span multiple pages still come out right. any document you can describe in a schema works, from invoices to research papers. here's what you get with lift: - 90.2% field accuracy on 11,000 fields - 9B model, nearly matches Gemini Flash 3.5 at 3x the speed - built not to hallucinate; returns null if missing - self-hostable with vLLM or Hugging Face GitHub repo: https://t.co/akcdjgT6ei (don't forget to star 🌟)

'Better than DeepSeek': Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro debuts as the top open weights model in the world alongside cheaper V2.6-Flash - VentureBeat https://t.co/CafNQgnTE1

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i wasn't supposed to find this. now i can't stop thinking about it. Elon Musk posted one line that hit 4 million views: "Grok @Bot will not only do your purchasing, but also find & negotiate the best deal" here's the part nobody noticed: that tool already exists. SpaceXAI built its own negotiator Haggle Bot published the entire prompt, and left the page live. then Elon called it a gamechanger in front of 21 million people. cost to copy it: $0 on top of your sub. → clone the Haggle Bot template, name it Haggler → before any big purchase, drop the link in chat it shops it around with same-day competitor prices → before it writes a single word, it shows you the plan: target price, opening offer, walk-away point, and its next two moves if the seller refuses, counters, or goes silent → it opens 5–10% under your target, never more than 25% off their price so the seller stays at the table → it prices every line itself, because any line left blank gets priced for you → it drafts the counter inside your own inbox. nothing sends until you tap approve the detail i keep rereading: the prompt has a list of things it must never reveal to the seller how fast you need it, how many you'd take, that you've already decided to buy. your laptop stays shut. the price drops anyway. one run took a $14,629 order down to $6,143. 58% off built by the company that sells it, tested on itself. six months from now, some people will have a bot that fights every price for them. you'll have paid sticker every single time. full playbook below 👇

Aleph Alpha just released Kolibri, a 78B open-weight model built in Europe. Here's what you need to know. Kolibri has 78 billion parameters, but only 3.46 billion are active per token. It supports up to 1M tokens of context. The weights are public under Apache 2.0, so anyone can run it on their own hardware. The German company launched it on October 3, German National Day. The team built it fast. Work started in January. Nearly four months later they launched a first large-scale run, Kolibri Origin, a 30B-A3B model trained on 7.7T tokens. Kolibri scales that up to about 3x the data, about 2.5x the sparsity and 4x the trained context. Pre-training to release took under two months. The team also reports on the model's strengths. They worked on German support in fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. Their RL setup runs 20K+ concurrent sandboxes per training run and 100K+ sandboxes overall. One outside write-up says Kolibri scores 96.9% on AIME. It says that beats every mixture-of-experts model tested, even ones about 3x bigger, and that only a dense model doing 8x the work does better. Aleph Alpha also published a tech report of about 189 pages. It covers methods, results and limitations, and the team says it shares what worked so others pay less to try it. Key numbers: - 78B total parameters - 3.46B active parameters - Up to 1M tokens of context - 24T training tokens, up from 7.7T - 80B-A3.5B sparsity, up from 30B-A3B - Under 2 months from pre-training to release - 96.9% on AIME - License: Apache 2.0 Kolibri is Aleph Alpha's first model release of this kind, with open weights, a full tech report and a German-English focus.

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when people say “open” AI, i think there’s an important distinction having downloadable weights doesn’t necessarily mean you have the full model a genuinely open multimodal stack could expose the weights, architecture, tokenizer, vision encoder, training code amd inference pipeline each layer gives developers a different level of control • with the weights, you can run and fine-tune • with the inference stack, you can optimize quantization, KV cache and hardware utilization • with the architecture, you can go even deeper😋 im still exploring where “open weights” ends and truly open AI begins

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Black Forest Labs just gave open source AI a body FLUX 3 Action is 7B model built to turn AI into real world robot actions - Open weights - Base model + shared encoders - SO-101 & DROID policies - Fine tunable for robotics tasks and the big part: it’s built for real robot control not just simulation. https://t.co/KEwbkikyB6

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Open-weight AI means the trained model’s internal numerical parameters—its “weights”—are available for people to download and run themselves. Depending on the license, people can also modify the model, build products around it, and redistribute their versions. That matters because it gives people control over the technology itself. With a closed model accessed through an app or paid service, the provider controls access, pricing, updates, and permitted uses. With an open-weight model, you can possess a usable copy and operate it independently. The strongest argument for open weights is about distributing power: more people and institutions can use, adapt, and provide AI without depending on a handful of companies. What are “weights,” and how do they work? An AI model consists of a mathematical structure and a large collection of numbers. Those numbers are the weights. During training, a learning process adjusts them to make the model better at a task. For a language model, the process broadly works like this: Training material is converted into tokens. Tokens are pieces of words, punctuation, or other data represented as numbers. The model makes predictions. A common training task is predicting the next token from the preceding text. Its predictions are compared with the training examples. The training process calculates an error and adjusts the weights to reduce it. This happens repeatedly across enormous amounts of material. The resulting weights encode learned patterns that support writing, translation, coding, and other capabilities. Additional training can shape its behavior. For example, the model can learn to follow instructions or favor certain types of responses. The weights aren’t a readable encyclopedia or a set of handwritten rules. They are numerical values whose interactions produce the model’s behavior. Models can also memorize some training material, so “learned patterns” does not mean memorization never happens. When you use the finished model, you are usually performing inference: running calculations with its existing weights. Your prompt becomes tokens, the model calculates possible next tokens, and a generation process selects them repeatedly to produce a response. An ordinary conversation generally does not change the model’s weights. Open-weight releases let other people perform those calculations on their own equipment. What can someone do with an open-weight model? You typically download the weights along with the model configuration, tokenizer, and compatible software. You can then: Run it on your own computer or servers. Smaller models can run on consumer hardware; larger models may require substantial computing resources. Build an application around it. For example, a writing assistant, translation service, research tool, or coding assistant. Fine-tune it. Continue training on a smaller, specialized dataset to adapt its behavior to a particular task. This is how fine-tuning is described in Hugging Face’s documentation. Connect it to your own documents. A retrieval system can find relevant passages and supply them to the model without changing its weights. Compress it for cheaper operation. One technique, quantization, represents numbers with fewer bits, reducing memory requirements, with possible quality tradeoffs. See Hugging Face’s quantization documentation. Share improvements, when the license permits it. You don’t need to repeat the original, expensive training process to use the trained model. That is a major part of the value: many people can build on one release. Open weights and open source are different “Open weights” describes access to the trained parameters. It does not automatically mean the training data, training software, or full development process is available. It also does not guarantee unrestricted use: a downloadable model may have license restrictions. The Open Source Initiative’s definition goes further, requiring freedoms to use, study, modify, and share the system, together with weights, relevant code, and sufficient information about its training data. An open-weight release can therefore be useful without qualifying as fully open-source AI. Open Source Initiative’s definition When assessing a release, the practical questions are: Can I download it? Can I run it independently? Can I modify it? Can I use it commercially? Can I share it? Why can open-weight models be better for users and society? They are not automatically more capable than closed models. Their strongest advantages concern control, competition, and independence. You have a credible alternative to the provider. If a hosted AI company raises prices, removes a feature, changes the model, or ends access, customers may have little recourse. A legitimately obtained open-weight copy can continue operating independently, subject to its license and your available hardware. You can also keep a particular version when consistency matters. More businesses can compete. Developers can build from an existing model instead of financing a foundation model from scratch. Different companies can offer hosting, support, specialized adaptations, or privacy features around the same model. That makes it harder for one provider to control every route to using that capability. Local operation can improve privacy. A properly configured local system can process documents without sending them to an outside model provider. That is useful for personal information, confidential business records, and sensitive research. The surrounding application still needs scrutiny: an open model inside a cloud service does not automatically make the service private. Communities can adapt models to their own needs. A commercial provider may prioritize large markets. Researchers and local organizations can adapt open-weight models for smaller languages, accessibility needs, regional knowledge, or specialized work. Researchers can investigate more deeply. Access to weights allows experiments and modifications that a remote chat interface cannot provide. However, billions of available numbers do not make the model’s reasoning immediately understandable, and missing training information can limit investigation. The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s 2024 report examines these competition, customization, and research benefits, alongside their limitations. NTIA’s competition and research analysis How could this democratize AI? “Democratize AI” should mean more than letting everyone create an account. It should include the ability to shape the technology and choose who operates it. Consider a hypothetical community organization that wants an assistant in a language poorly served by major AI products. With an open-weight model and adequate resources, it could adapt the model, host it locally, involve community members in evaluation, and offer access on its own terms. The same principle applies to schools, libraries, universities, small businesses, nonprofits, and public institutions. They can become builders and operators, rather than relying entirely on a vendor’s product decisions. There is also a cumulative effect. One group improves language support; another makes the model run on less expensive hardware; another develops better accessibility tools. If the licenses allow sharing, those improvements can become resources others reuse. But access to a download is only the first step. Meaningful access also requires affordable hardware, usable software, education, language support, and organizations that can maintain reliable services. Many people would benefit through a school, library, or local provider rather than personally operating a model. How does this limit concentrated AI power? Your concern is plausible: if AI becomes central to work, education, research, communication, and public services, the companies controlling it could gain substantial economic and political influence. Potential sources of power include: Pricing: charging for capabilities that people increasingly need. Access: deciding which people, organizations, or countries can use a service. Information: influencing which sources and answers users encounter. Dependence: making it costly to move applications and workflows elsewhere. Data: receiving sensitive information through widespread use. Distribution: controlling the platforms through which AI reaches users. Closed ownership is not itself proof of a monopoly. The concern is concentrated market power combined with dependence on essential services. Open weights can weaken that dependence by giving users and competitors a usable alternative. A company may still offer a superior service, but other organizations can operate and adapt available models without obtaining continuing permission from that company. My assessment is that this creates an important constraint on concentrated power: the ability to leave becomes more credible when you can take a working model with you. Why openness alone won’t prevent AI monopolies AI has several sources of power beyond model weights: Advanced chips and large computing facilities. Money to train future models. Valuable datasets. Cloud infrastructure. Distribution through devices, search engines, and workplace software. An open model can still depend on infrastructure controlled by a few companies. Large firms can also benefit from open releases, use them to build an ecosystem, and retain advantages elsewhere. If future capabilities become dramatically more expensive to train or operate, releasing weights alone may not make those capabilities broadly accessible. And if a company releases older models while retaining its strongest systems, the public gains useful tools without necessarily gaining equal capability. Preventing excessive concentration therefore also involves competition policy, public and academic computing resources, interoperability, sustainable funding for independent development, and accessible tools. Those are complements to open weights. There are tradeoffs, too. Released weights can be modified to remove safeguards, and withdrawing every copy is generally impractical. Openness supports independent testing while also making some forms of misuse harder to control. The NTIA report evaluates both benefits and risks. The case for open-weight AI is that powerful capabilities should be available for many people to operate, study, and adapt. It cannot guarantee equal access or prevent monopolies by itself, but it can give society practical alternatives to depending on a few private gatekeepers—and those alternatives could become increasingly valuable as AI advances.

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Could the EU Kids Act (or the like) be use potentially(Trojan horse) as excuse to go after the AI Open weights?

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@alwayspriyesh Any AI model trained on public data should be open weights and usable by the public for any legal purpose.

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Hacktoberfest is now about building with open-weight models, not counting PRs

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most people will never run a frontier open-weight model on their own hardware doesn't matter. once the weights drop, ten providers can serve the exact same model and the price falls toward the cost of the gpus open weights are a price ceiling on everyone else

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Cloudflare/clef-flash: trending open-weights model release with 365 likes and 4310 downloads. tags: transformers safetensors qwen3_5 image-text-to-text clef cloudflare systemone qwen3.5 post-train image-text-to-typed-output multimodal structured-output classification custom-code conversational base_model:Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B base_model:finetune:Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B license:apache-2.0 endpoints_compatible region:us

Cloudflare/clef: trending open-weights model release with 956 likes and 2620 downloads. tags: transformers safetensors qwen3_5 image-text-to-text clef cloudflare systemone qwen3.8 post-train image-text-to-typed-output multimodal structured-output classification custom-code conversational base_model:Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B base_model:finetune:Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B license:apache-2.0 endpoints_compatible region:us

SupersonicLabs/Julia-1: trending open-weights model release with 377 likes and 3251 downloads. tags: pytorch safetensors decision-model text-classification multilingual routing base_model:jhu-clsp/mmBERT-small base_model:finetune:jhu-clsp/mmBERT-small license:apache-2.0 region:us

Contrastive-LM/CLM-v0.1-8B: trending open-weights model release with 687 likes and 3190 downloads. tags: contrastive-lm clm contrastive-learning verifier reranker agents text-ranking en base_model:Qwen/Qwen3-8B base_model:finetune:Qwen/Qwen3-8B license:apache-2.0 region:us

convaiinnovations/laya: trending open-weights model release with 5042 likes and 0 downloads. tags: transformers safetensors laya system-one calibrated-decisions rlcd classification routing scoring guardrails moderation reinforcement-learning commercial-use text-classification license:apache-2.0 endpoints_compatible region:us