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    <title>The Open Weights</title>
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    <description>The daily record of open-source AI — new model releases and major updates.</description>
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      <title>Zhipu AI Releases MIT-Licensed GLM-5.2 MoE Model</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/glm-5-2-bs32</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:19:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Zhipu AI has released GLM-5.2, a new bilingual Mixture of Experts language model with sparse attention, available under the permissive MIT license.</description>
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      <title>Weibo AI Releases VibeThinker-3B, a Compact Reasoning Model</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/vibethinker-3b-3am6</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/vibethinker-3b-3am6</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:43:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Weibo AI has released VibeThinker-3B, a compact 3B model specializing in complex reasoning tasks like math, code generation, and GPQA benchmarks.</description>
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      <title>Moonshot AI Releases Kimi, a Multimodal Coding Model</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/kimi-k2-7-code-jmbg</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/kimi-k2-7-code-jmbg</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:51:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Moonshot AI has released Kimi-K2.7-Code, a Mixture-of-Experts model designed for coding tasks that can also process visual inputs like images.</description>
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      <title>Zyphra Releases Open-Source Zonos 2 TTS Model</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/zonos-2-u7e2</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/zonos-2-u7e2</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:20:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Zyphra has released Zonos 2, an open-weight text-to-speech model available for commercial use under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.</description>
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      <title>Google Releases Open-Source DiffusionGemma 26B Model</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-h4ke</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-h4ke</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:40:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Google has released DiffusionGemma 26B, an open-source, instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts model that uses a novel diffusion architecture for text.</description>
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      <title>Zhipu AI Releases SCAIL-2 for Character Animation</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/scail-2-xvt5</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/scail-2-xvt5</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:18:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Zhipu AI's research arm has released SCAIL-2, an open-source, MIT-licensed diffusion model for pose-driven character animation from a single image.</description>
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      <title>Cohere Releases North-Mini-Code, an Open MoE Model</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/north-mini-code-1-0-wul0</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/north-mini-code-1-0-wul0</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:38:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Cohere has released North-Mini-Code 1.0, an Apache 2.0-licensed Mixture-of-Experts model specialized for code generation and agentic chat applications.</description>
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      <title>Boson AI's Higgs Audio v3 Offers Expressive, Multilingual TTS</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/higgs-audio-v3-tts-4b-2be3</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/higgs-audio-v3-tts-4b-2be3</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:37:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Boson AI has released Higgs Audio v3, a 4-billion-parameter text-to-speech model for expressive, controllable, and multilingual audio generation.</description>
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      <title>MiniMax Releases M3, a Multimodal MoE Model</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/minimax-m3-1lji</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/minimax-m3-1lji</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:49:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>MiniMax AI has released MiniMax-M3, an open-weight, multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model designed for vision, coding, and agentic reasoning tasks.</description>
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      <title>Ideogram 4.0: A 9.3B Open-Weight Text-to-Image Model</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/ideogram-4-0-abj7</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/ideogram-4-0-abj7</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 23:40:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Ideogram has released Ideogram 4.0, a 9.3B parameter open-weight text-to-image model using a Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architecture.</description>
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      <title>Google Releases Gemma 4, a 12B 'Any-to-Any' Model</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/gemma-4-12b-lou5</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/gemma-4-12b-lou5</guid>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 01:17:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Google DeepMind has released Gemma 4 12B Instruct, a new open-weight model with a unified 'any-to-any' architecture for flexible multimodal reasoning.</description>
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      <title>NVIDIA Releases SANA, a Camera-Controllable Video Model</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/sana-wm-bidirectional-3rui</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/sana-wm-bidirectional-3rui</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 11:14:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>NVIDIA has released SANA-WM, an open-source world model for camera-controllable video generation using a novel bidirectional diffusion technique.</description>
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      <title>NVIDIA Releases Nemotron-3.5 Streaming ASR Model</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/nemotron-3-5-asr-streaming-0-6b-jn8s</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/nemotron-3-5-asr-streaming-0-6b-jn8s</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 21:52:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 ASR Streaming, a 600M-parameter model designed for real-time, multilingual speech-to-text transcription.</description>
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      <title>ByteDance Releases Lance, a Unified Generative AI Model</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/lance-8jr6</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/lance-8jr6</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 08:05:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>ByteDance has released Lance, a 3B parameter open-source model for unified image and video generation, editing, and understanding via a single architecture.</description>
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      <title>SenseTime Releases 8B 'Any-to-Any' Infographic Model</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/sensenova-u1-8b-mot-infographic-e0f6</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/sensenova-u1-8b-mot-infographic-e0f6</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:54:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>SenseTime has released SenseNova U1, an 8B 'any-to-any' multimodal model. It specializes in generating and editing complex infographics within a conversation.</description>
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      <title>Lightricks Releases LoRA for AI Lip-Dubbing</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/ltx-2-3-22b-ic-lora-lipdub-azlx</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/ltx-2-3-22b-ic-lora-lipdub-azlx</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 10:02:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Lightricks has released an IC-LoRA, a specialized adapter for its LTX-2.3 video model, designed to enable high-quality, identity-preserving lip-dubbing.</description>
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      <title>Tencent Releases 1.8B Model for Multilingual Translation</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/hunyuan-mt2-1-8b-pb3x</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/hunyuan-mt2-1-8b-pb3x</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 08:22:10 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Tencent has released Hunyuan-MT2, a 1.8B parameter dense model focused on high-quality multilingual machine translation, available with a custom license.</description>
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      <title>Supertone Releases On-Device Multilingual TTS Model</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/supertonic-3-47h3</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/supertonic-3-47h3</guid>
      <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 20:46:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Supertone has released Supertonic 3, a multilingual text-to-speech model optimized for on-device use with ONNX support and a non-commercial license.</description>
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      <title>NVIDIA Releases PiD for High-Quality Image Upscaling</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/nvidia-pid-pixel-diffusion-decoder-38mh</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/nvidia-pid-pixel-diffusion-decoder-38mh</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:41:46 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>NVIDIA has released PiD, a pixel-diffusion VAE decoder for super-resolution. The component is designed to work with Stability AI's Z-Image base model.</description>
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      <title>NVIDIA Releases Efficient Nemotron-3 Multimodal MoE</title>
      <link>https://theopenweights.com/news/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning-cbno</link>
      <guid>https://theopenweights.com/news/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning-cbno</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:09:58 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>NVIDIA has released Nemotron-3 Nano Omni, a 30B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model for multimodal reasoning that uses only 3B active parameters.</description>
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