Tencent's open source Hunyuan 3D model reaches 3 million downloads on Hugging Face while the tech giant advocates for model-agnostic AI platforms at Davos 2026, as their internal AI tools now generate over half of new code for 12,000+ engineers across 900+ business scenarios.
AbleMouse launches open-source computer control system offering affordable alternatives to expensive assistive technologies, providing tongue, touch, AI vision, and gesture controls for users with ALS, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord injuries across multiple operating systems.
OpenBuilder launches as a free open-source alternative to Lovable, offering non-technical developers powerful AI-powered building tools that match Claude Sonnet 4's performance while eliminating high costs and bugs that typically derail coding projects.
Tencent launches HunyuanImage-3.0, the world's largest open-source AI image generator with 80 billion parameters and revolutionary autoregressive architecture, featuring 64 experts in a Mixture of Experts design that delivers superior text-to-image generation with advanced world-knowledge reasoning capabilities.
Qwen releases Qwen3-ASR-Toolkit, an open source Python tool to bypass limits on its Qwen3-ASR-Flash API for speech recognition, offering parallel processing, audio normalization, format conversion, and text cleanup.
GitHub introduces the MCP Registry, a central hub for discovering and accessing MCP servers, curated from partners and the open source community, fostering an open ecosystem in collaboration with Anthropic and the MCP Steering Committee.
DeepSeek unveils DeepSeek V3.1, a 685-billion parameter open-source AI model rivaling OpenAI and Anthropic, integrating chat, reasoning, and coding into one model with global access and breakthrough performance at a fraction of the cost.
Alibaba unveils Qwen-Image, a powerful open source AI image generator that excels at accurately rendering text within visuals, supporting English and Chinese scripts under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.
OpenAI unleashes two new open source language models gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, matching or exceeding their proprietary models' performance while ensuring privacy by running locally, available for free use under the permissive Apache 2.0 license.
The U.S. prioritizes open-source AI as a national imperative to outpace China in the global AI race, recognizing the need to return to open science roots and empower the next generation of AI builders.