A few weeks ago, French company Mistral released an early version of its new artificial intelligence model, nicknamed Le Chonk. At the time, the company…
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Tenstorrent hits $6.2B valuation to scale open-weight AI chips |
In Brief Posted: 11:37 AM PDT · October 19, 2026 Tenstorrent, a chip startup focused on inference, has raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion…
Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence, French company Mistral has released a new freely-available model that it claims can compete…
Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire |
10:15 AM PDT · September 17, 2026 Baseten launched a new safety infrastructure standard alongside its Base Labs research arm on Wednesday, partnering with Hugging…
Open-weight AI companies are the Valley's hottest acquisition targets |
Everyone’s waiting for Nvidia to confirm this week’s most interesting tech deal: A reported $13 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, a platform for sharing open-weight…
As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions |
Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on…
Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show
Nvidia will spend $26 billion over the next five years to build open source artificial intelligence models, according to a 2025 financial filing. Executives confirmed…
OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Coming to the US Military
When OpenAI unveiled its first open-weight models in years this August, it wasn’t just tech companies that were paying attention. The release also excited US…