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I stopped using LM Studio once I found this open-source alternative

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I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee

Arcee is a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a high-performing, massive, open source LLM. And it's gaining popularity with OpenClaw users.
TechCrunch

Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta’s Llama

Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a bit of Amazon) along with their model makers of choice, ...
Mashable

Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-source model: How to try it

Google just released its newest AI model Gemma 4, which is now both open and open source. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Google just released the latest version of its ...
SiliconANGLE

Moonshot AI releases open-source Kimi K2.5 model with 1T parameters

Chinese artificial intelligence developer Moonshot AI today debuted Kimi K2.5, an open-source model that it says can outperform GPT-5.2 across several benchmarks. The launch comes a few days after ...
USA Today

LLM.co Releases Study on the Growth of Open Source vs. Closed Source LLM Adoption

Seattle, Washington, United States, March 12, 2026 — LLM.co today released a new industry study examining how enterprises are choosing between open source and closed source large language models (LLMs ...
Geeky Gadgets

Kimi K2 Thinking Leaps Ahead : Open Model Beats OpenAI & Google in Tests

What if the future of artificial intelligence wasn’t locked behind corporate walls but instead placed in the hands of everyone? Enter the Kimi K2 Thinking model, a new open source large language model ...