Ollama's New Pricing: What the Credit-Pool Change Actually Means
Ollama swapped GPU-hour billing for per-token credits across Pro, Max and Team plans. What the tiers cost, what's free, and how the no-logging promise holds up.
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Which Open Models You Can Actually Use Commercially
Open weights is not an open licence. Verified Hugging Face licence tags for 46 model repos, and the size and version traps that block shipping.
Qwen3.8-27B Ships Apache 2.0; AMD Adds Day-0 Support
Qwen's 27B vision-language model is on Hugging Face ungated under Apache 2.0, and AMD says it needs roughly 24GB of VRAM to run comfortably.
Hinton, Li, and Ng Cannot Agree on Open AI
At Ai4 2026, Hinton, Li, and Ng shared a stage and split over open-weight AI. The only consensus: regulation belongs in the conversation.
Qwen3.8-Max Goes Open Weight; 27B Targets 17GB
Alibaba announced 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max open weights and a 27B sibling that Unsloth says will run in 17GB of RAM or VRAM.
Open-Weight AI Coalition Draws a Line on Distillation
A new industry letter asks Washington to protect open-weight AI while separating legitimate distillation from alleged theft of closed models.
Current AI Wants to Build a Free World Wide Web of AI
Backed by $400M, the nonprofit Current AI wants to build a free, public-interest AI stack modeled on the early Web. Here's who's funding it and what's shipping.
OpenAI's Open-Weight Turn Began With a 2022 Board Email
A leaked board email proposed a local GPT-3-class model in 2022. OpenAI's later gpt-oss release shows how that strategy changed.
Open-Weight Models Trail Closed Frontier on Cyber by 4-7 Months
UK AISI's July 17 evaluation finds GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro match closed frontier models from 4-7 months ago at a fraction of the cost.
Flint, Qwen3, and a Year of LLM Groupthink
A tiny Australian startup is fine-tuning a model to break ChatGPT-style groupthink. The 'Time is a river' problem is the symptom.
Open Source AI Wins: Five Frontier Models Ship in 30 Days
DeepSeek V4, Cohere Command A+, ZAYA1-8B, and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 mark the busiest month for open-weight AI ever.
Local AI Showdown: Best Open-Weight Models for Your Hardware
A tier-by-tier comparison of the top open-weight LLMs you can run locally, from 8GB laptops to 24GB gaming GPUs to Apple Silicon Macs.
Alibaba's Qwen 3.5: Open Weights With Caveats
Qwen 3.5 offers a 397B MoE flagship and smaller local models under Apache 2.0, but Alibaba's benchmarks need independent testing.