Articles Tagged "Open Source"

llama.cpp Lands Three Audio Models in 48 Hours

llama.cpp Lands Three Audio Models in 48 Hours

Three separate PRs merged into llama.cpp between April 11-13 add MERaLiON-2, Gemma 4's Conformer encoder, and Qwen3-Omni/ASR - making local voice AI inference practical on consumer hardware for the first time.

Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy

Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy

Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.

Qwen3.5-Omni Does 10-Hour Audio and 4M Video Frames

Qwen3.5-Omni Does 10-Hour Audio and 4M Video Frames

Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Omni handles audio, video, images, and text in a single model pass - and generates speech in real time. The Plus variant hits SOTA on 215 benchmarks and edges out Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio tasks.

EXAONE 4.5: LG's Open VLM Beats GPT-5-mini on STEM

EXAONE 4.5: LG's Open VLM Beats GPT-5-mini on STEM

LG AI Research released EXAONE 4.5, a 33B open-weight vision-language model that posts higher STEM scores than GPT-5-mini and Claude 4.5 Sonnet - but a non-commercial license caps its real-world reach.