On Tuesday, Microsoft announced a new, freely available lightweight AI language model named Phi-3-mini, which is simpler and less expensive to operate than traditional large language models (LLMs) ...

Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen3, a family of AI models that the company claims can match and, in some cases, outperform the best models available from Google and OpenAI. Most of ...

Sometimes the best way to solve a complex problem is to take a page from a children’s book. That’s the lesson Microsoft researchers learned by figuring out how to pack more punch into a much smaller ...

Mistral AI, Europe's most prominent AI startup, is releasing its most ambitious product suite to date: A family of 10 open-source models designed to run everywhere from smartphones and autonomous ...

Most new AI models go big—more parameters, more tokens, more everything. Google’s newest AI model has some big numbers, but it’s also tuned for efficiency. Google says the Gemma 3 open source model is ...

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) recently released what it calls its most powerful family of models yet, Olmo 3. But the company kept iterating on the models, expanding its reinforcement learning (RL) ...