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I replaced Figma with four open-source alternatives for a week, and only one actually stuck

Different tools for different jobs, but only one is actually useful to me ...

Open Source MiniMax M3 Outperforms Opus 4.7 for a Fraction of the Cost

Discover how the open-source MiniMax M3 AI model outperforms GPT 5.5 and Opus 4.7 in coding benchmarks while offering ...
VentureBeat

IBM's open source Granite 4.0 Nano AI models are small enough to run locally directly in your browser

Flat AI illustration showing silhouettes of people working in cool modern rock wall home. Credit: VentureBeat made with Midjourney In an industry where model size is often seen as a proxy for ...
VentureBeat

Microsoft makes powerful Phi-4 model fully open-source on Hugging Face

Even as its big investment partner OpenAI continues to announce more powerful reasoning models such as the latest o3 series, Microsoft is not sitting idly by. Instead, it's pursuing the development of ...
Geeky Gadgets

How DeepSeek 4’S Massive 1M Token Context Window is Changing Open-Source AI

DeepSeek 4 introduces two open source language models designed to meet varying computational requirements, as detailed by Prompt Engineering. The Pro model, with 1.6 trillion parameters, is optimized ...
Business Wire

Z.ai Open-Sources GLM-4.7, a New Generation Large Language Model Built for Real Development Workflows

SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Z.ai released GLM-4.7 ahead of Christmas, marking the latest iteration of its GLM large language model family. As open-source models move beyond chat-based applications and ...
ZDNet

I found an open-source NotebookLM alternative that's powerful, private - and free

Open Notebook is an open-source take on NotebookLM. Open Notebook can be installed and used for free. You do have to understand Linux and containers to deploy it. NotebookLM has become an incredibly ...