OpenAI Parameter Golf Offers $1M for AI Compression
OpenAI has launched Parameter Golf, an open research competition offering $1M in computing credits to whoever can compress AI models into just 16MB with only 10 minutes of training time.
CorridorKey Ships Open-Source AI Green Screen Tool
Corridor Digital co-founder Niko Pueringer releases CorridorKey, an AI chroma keyer that handles hair, motion blur, and transparency at VFX-production quality.
SD3.5-Flash Brings 4-Step Image Generation to Phones
SD3.5-Flash generates images in just 4 steps instead of the usual 30 to 50, making on-device AI image generation practical on smartphones and laptops with under 8GB of RAM.
Google Colab MCP Server Connects AI Agents to GPUs
Google has released an open-source MCP server for Google Colab, letting AI agents like Claude Code and Gemini CLI create notebooks, execute Python code, and access cloud GPUs directly.
Unsloth Studio Brings No-Code LLM Training to Desktop
Unsloth AI released Studio, a free local application that provides a visual interface for fine-tuning large language models while using 70% less VRAM than standard training methods.
Holotron-12B Ships Open-Source Computer Use at 2x Speed
H Company released Holotron-12B on March 17, an open-source computer use agent model that delivers more than 2x the throughput of its predecessor on a single H100 GPU.
Mamba-3 Open-Source SSM Rivals Transformers at 7x Speed
Researchers from CMU, Princeton, Together AI, and Cartesia AI published Mamba-3, a state-space model architecture that matches transformer performance while running inference 7x faster.
Leanstral Proves AI Code Is Correct at 93% Less Cost
Mistral released Leanstral, the first open-source AI agent built for Lean 4 formal verification, proving AI-generated code meets its specifications at 93% lower cost.
NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition Unites 8 Labs for Open AI
NVIDIA launched the Nemotron Coalition at GTC, uniting Black Forest Labs, Cursor, Mistral AI, Perplexity, and four other labs to co-develop open frontier AI models.
Mistral Small 4 Ships 119B Open Multimodal Model
Mistral AI released Mistral Small 4, a 119B mixture-of-experts model that unifies reasoning, multimodal vision, and coding under a single Apache 2.0 license.
Open-Source Creative AI Catches Up in March 2026
Six open-source releases in two weeks just made a full creative pipeline possible without a single subscription Between March 1 and March 15, 2026, something happened that has never happened before in creative AI: open-source models matched or exceeded commercial tools across every major creative...
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super: Open-Source 120B Model
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Super on March 11, 2026, an open-source 120B-parameter hybrid Mamba-Transformer model that delivers 5x higher throughput than its predecessor for agentic AI workloads