Jacquard: A Language for AI-Written Code
Jacquard is a new open-source language designed for a world where most code is written by AI models and reviewed by people.
ComfyUI v0.28.0 Adds 3D and Splat Export
ComfyUI shipped version 0.28.0 on July 15, 2026 with native 3D and Gaussian splat export, new text nodes, SeedVR2 upscaling, and more open-model support.
Inkling: Thinking Machines' Open Multimodal AI
Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weights Mixture-of-Experts model that reads text, images, and audio. You can self-host it or fine-tune it via Tinker.
Google Open-Sources Noto 3D Emoji as OBJ Files
For World Emoji Day, Google rebuilt all 3,977 Noto emoji as true 3D models and released them as raw .OBJ files anyone can open in Blender. Here is what shipped and how creators can use it.
Fine-Tune FLUX and Wan Models With NeMo Automodel
NVIDIA NeMo Automodel now fine-tunes Hugging Face Diffusers image and video models like FLUX.2, Qwen-Image, Wan 2.2 and HunyuanVideo 1.5 with LoRA or full training.
LM Studio Bionic: AI Agent for Open Models
LM Studio Bionic is a new standalone AI agent for open models, with voice input, code editing, and document analysis that run locally or on secure cloud.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed 8B Tops RTEB Benchmark
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3 Embed, an open collection of text-embedding models whose 8B checkpoint ranks #1 overall on RTEB, the Retrieval Embedding Benchmark.
Brainless: Agent UIs as Copy-Paste Shadcn Components
Ben Swerdlow's Brainless rebuilds Claude Code, Codex, and Grok interfaces as MIT-licensed shadcn components you install with one CLI command.
xAI Open-Sources Grok Build: Local AI Coding Agent
xAI open-sourced Grok Build, its Rust terminal coding agent, on July 15, 2026 under Apache 2.0. You can now compile it locally, point it at any model, and run with no cloud caps.
Avatoon: 3D Avatar Lip-Sync in React Three Fiber
Avatoon is an open-source React Three Fiber component that drops a talking, lip-synced 3D avatar into any web or React Native app. Version 1.10.0 shipped July 15, 2026 under an MIT license.
Trellis2.c: Local Image-to-3D With No Python
trellis2.c runs Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D model natively on CUDA or Vulkan with no Python, chaining four models into a full local pipeline from photo to rigged 3D asset.
Lemonade 11.0: AMD's Local AI Server Adds TTS and 3D
AMD's Lemonade 11.0 turns its local AI server into a full multimodal stack, adding text-to-speech and 3D generation alongside LLMs and image gen.
Branda: Open-Source AI On-Brand Ad Generator
Branda turns any website URL into ready-to-ship, on-brand LinkedIn and X ad creatives in seconds, pulling real logos and colors via the Context.dev Brand API.
Bonsai 27B Runs a 27B AI Model on Your Phone
Bonsai 27B is a new open-weights multimodal model that PrismML compressed to as little as 3.9 GB, small enough to run entirely on a phone or laptop with no cloud connection.
Mozilla State of Open Source AI 2026: Key Findings
Mozilla released its inaugural State of Open Source AI report on July 14, 2026. Open-weight models have closed the capability gap with closed frontier systems to just 3.3 percent, while inference costs fell roughly 50 times in three years.
audio.cpp 0.3 Adds Supertonic 3 and 4 Local TTS Models
audio.cpp 0.3 adds Supertonic 3, IndexTTS2, Irodori-TTS, and MOSS-TTS to one C++/ggml engine, running local text-to-speech and voice cloning with no Python and no cloud fees.
Vivijure: Self-Hosted Open-Source AI Film Studio
Vivijure is a free, open-source AI film studio you self-host, orchestrating a dozen image, video, audio, and lip-sync models behind one web interface.
Clawk: Sandbox Autonomous AI Coding Agents in a VM
Clawk gives an AI coding agent its own disposable Linux microVM, so Claude Code or Codex can run with full autonomy while your laptop stays isolated.
How to Build an AI Short in ComfyUI With Velorn
Generate every clip, cut them on a real timeline, add captions, and export a finished AI short without leaving ComfyUI. A full step-by-step Velorn workflow, plus how to automate it with an AI agent.
Run Qwen3.6 2.5x Faster Locally With Unsloth NVFP4
Unsloth released NVFP4 quantized versions of Qwen3.6 that run up to 2.5x faster, with the 27B model fitting on a single 24GB GPU.
MuScriptor: Open Audio-to-MIDI Model for Full Mixes
Kyutai and Mirelo released MuScriptor, an open-weight model that transcribes a full song mix into separate, editable MIDI tracks, one per instrument.
ReviewFlow Brings GitLab Code Review Into Cursor
ReviewFlow is a new open-source extension that moves GitLab code review inside your editor, so you can draft comments and publish merge request reviews without leaving Cursor or VS Code.
Run GLM-5.2 (744B) Locally on 25GB RAM: Colibri
A developer released Colibri, a pure-C engine that runs GLM-5.2 (744B MoE) on a 25GB-RAM machine with no GPU by streaming experts from an NVMe SSD.
Ollama Hits 9M Devs: Your Local Open-Model Workflow
Ollama raised $88M and now serves 8.9M developers. Here is how to run open AI models locally, when to reach for Ollama Cloud, and a full getting-started workflow.