Open Source

• FreeToken runs frontier-scale MoE models on consumer GPUs

  FreeToken uses bandwidth-adaptive CPU-GPU execution and semantic caching to serve 35B to 753B MoE models on consumer and workstation hardware.

• Chinese AI models take OpenRouter’s top three spots in real-world usage

  DeepSeek, Tencent and Xiaomi lead OpenRouter’s weekly token rankings, showing a major shift in real-world developer usage across coding and agent workloads.

• GPT Image 2 prompt system passes 11K GitHub stars as Agent Skill gains traction

  awesome-gpt-image-2 has evolved into a Prompt-as-Code system and Agent Skill, showing growing developer demand for reusable image prompt infrastructure.

• Ant Ling opens six Ling 3.0 checkpoints for custom LLM training

  Ant Ling releases six Ling 3.0 base checkpoints across two model sizes and three training stages for continued pretraining and specialized LLM work.

• Qwen3.8-Max raises the bar for open-weight coding models

  Alibaba's Qwen team says Qwen3.8-Max sets a new bar for coding and cowork tasks and marks its first open-weight Qwen-Max-class release.

• Nvidia Pays $6B to License Poolside’s Model-Building Factory

  Nvidia reportedly licenses Poolside’s Model Factory for $6 billion, invests $1 billion and offers jobs to 109 technical staff.