- Nous Research launches Hermes 4 open-source AI models that outperform ChatGPT on math benchmarks with uncensored responses and hybrid reasoning capabilities.
- China's DeepSeek has released a 685-billion parameter open-source AI model, DeepSeek V3.1, challenging OpenAI and Anthropic with breakthrough performance, hybrid reasoning, and zero-cost access on Hugging Face.
- Morris found it could also reproduce verbatim passages from copyrighted works, including three out of six book excerpts he tried.
- Enterprises can use a powerful, near topline OpenAI LLM on their hardware totally privately and securely, without sending data to the cloud.
- My initial tests revealed the text and prompt adherence was not noticeably better than Midjourney, the popular proprietary AI image generator


