… But a variety of other Chinese models from big companies like Alibaba, as well as startups like Moonshot AI, Z.ai, and MiniMax, have also become popular in the West. Alibaba’s model Qwen, which is easy to use and modify and is well maintained, is widely used by researchers and startups. …
Tuesday, April 28th 2026 Microsoft's Shader Model 6.10 Opens Direct Access to GPU AI Engines by AleksandarK Apr 28th, 2026 17:15 Discuss 23 Comments Microsoft has released the Shader Model 6.10 preview, included in the new AgilitySDK 1.720-preview build. …
… Nemotron Speech comprises leaderboard-topping open models, including a new ASR model , that deliver real-time, low-latency speech recognition for live captions and speech AI applications. Daily and Modal benchmarks show that the model delivers 10x faster performance than other models in its class. …
… The AI factory trust dilemma The deployment of proprietary frontier models on shared infrastructure creates a three-way trust dilemma among key stakeholders in an AI factory: Model owners vs. infrastructure providers: Model owners need to protect their proprietary IP model weights, algorithmic logi… …
… Faster Creative AI With the Latest RTX-Optimized Models LTX 2.3, Lightricks’ state-of-the-art audio-video model, released earlier this month, now has support for NVFP4 and FP8 distilled models, accelerating performance by 2.1x. Learn more about Lightricks’ LTX 2.3 model . …
Black Forest Labs — the frontier AI research lab developing visual generative AI models — today released the FLUX.2 family of state-of-the-art image generation models. …
… Advanced open AI model development with new NVIDIA Nemotron, NVIDIA BioNeMo and NVIDIA Ising models, and the launch of the NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition. …
… DLSS 5 processes 2D frames and motion vectors as input, applying its generative AI model to output frames in a 2D context rather than 3D. Although the model is trained on materials that might appear three-dimensional visually, its actual work is based on 2D imagery. …
… Where open-weight AI models come from is also dramatically different to where closed models originate, as most of the serious releases this year have come out of Chinese labs. Aside from OpenAI's gpt-oss models and Google's Gemma 4 models, there hasn't really been an answer. …
… Nvidia’s open models hit on all of those industries, with examples being Cosmos for physical AI, Alpamayo for autonomous vehicles , BioNeMo for biology, and Nemotron 3, the latest set of multi-modal models for multi-agent systems. “This is Nvidia's open model initiative,” he said. “We are now at th… …
