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Meta Solidifies AI Open Source Retreat with Proprietary ‘Mango’ and ‘Avocado’ Models for 2026

Meta has reportedly shifted its AI strategy to proprietary 'Mango' and 'Avocado' models for a 2026 release, ending its open-source Llama initiative.

Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool-calling vision model for multimodal reasoning

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models ...
IEEE

OKVIS2-X: Open Keyframe-Based Visual-Inertial SLAM Configurable With Dense Depth or LiDAR, and GNSS

Abstract: To empower mobile robots with usable maps as well as highest state estimation accuracy and robustness, we present OKVIS2-X: a state-of-the-art multisensor simultaneous localization and ...
IEEE

Visual Programming for Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary 3D Visual Grounding

Abstract: 3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims at localizing 3D object based on textual descriptions. Conventional supervised methods for 3DVG often necessitate extensive annotations and a predefined ...
ZDNet

7 open-source apps I'd honestly pay for because they're that good

There are tons of brilliant open-source apps. You'll find open-source titles for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Some of these apps are so good, they should have a price tag. Since I started my journey ...