Lightricks released LTX-2.3 on March 5, 2026, a 22-billion-parameter open-source video generation model with native audio, portrait video support, and a companion desktop editor that runs the entire model locally. The release ships under Apache 2.0, making it free for commercial use and fine-tuning
Kiwi-Edit, a new open-source video editing framework from NUS ShowLab, launched on March 5, 2026, combining text instruction guidance with reference image control to handle both global and local video edits at 720p resolution
Xiaohongshu's Intelligent Creation team released FireRed-Image-Edit 1.1 on March 3, 2026, achieving a composite score of 7.94 across five authoritative benchmarks and claiming the top spot among open-source image editing models
Alibaba's Qwen team just released Qwen 3.5 Small, a series of four open-source models ranging from 0.8B to 9B parameters that run on phones, IoT devices, and browser tabs. The smallest model operates on a seven-year-old Samsung Galaxy S10E at 12 tokens per second
Zhipu AI released GLM-5 on February 13, 2026, a 744 billion parameter open-source model trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips without a single NVIDIA GPU