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A Chinese city skyline, home to the lab whose anonymous model drew developer attention before it was identified

AI & ML 7 min The Anonymous Model Called Ox Alpha Was Z.ai's, and Its Weights Are MIT An unattributed model ran free on OpenRouter and OpenCode for six days before researchers fingerprinted it and... MA Maya Lin 29 Aug

Source code in an editor, the kind of software-engineering work Granite 4.2's larger models were trained inside

Developer Tools 7 min IBM Releases Three Self-Hostable Granite Models Under Apache 2.0 The licence matters more than the benchmark: no field-of-use restriction, an explicit patent grant, and nothin... MA Maya Lin 29 Aug

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AI & ML 7 min Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5, Its First Public 'Mythos-Class' Model — With Guardrails and a Premium Price Anthropic on 9 June 2026 released Claude Fable 5, the first generally available model from its 'Mythos' tier a... AI AI Tools Desk 10 Jun

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AI & ML 9 min China's Open-Source AI Sprint: Four Labs Drop Frontier Coding Models in 12 Days, Closing Gap With Western AI Four Chinese AI labs — Z.ai, MiniMax, Moonshot, and DeepSeek — released open-weights coding models within 12 d... AI AI Tools Desk 8 May