Big news from @Baidu_Inc
! ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking — a breakthrough lightweight multimodal reasoning model — is now officially open-sourced. It’s already trending #1 on Hugging Face’s Image-Text-to-Text models list.
OPEN SOURCE
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Baidu Open-Sources ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B Multimodal Model
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Hugging Face Curates 30+ LoRAs for Qwen 2509
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Need LoRAs? @huggingface have curated 30+ for Qwen 2509 → https://
huggingface.co/models?other=b
ase_model:adapter:Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit-2509
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Qwen Image Edit Plus LoRA Explorer Now Available
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Qwen Image Edit Plus (2509) LoRA Explorer is here!
— Replicate (@replicate) 12 novembre 2025
Use any HF adapter fast.
Lightning fast.
Thanks to the @PrunaAI + @Alibaba_Qwen teams for making all of this possible pic.twitter.com/Vq99FWalzsQwen Image Edit Plus (2509) LoRA Explorer is here!
Use any HF adapter fast.
Lightning fast. Thanks to the @PrunaAI + @Alibaba_Qwen teams for making all of this possible -
AI Privatization Threatens Research and Global Participation
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What are we losing when AI knowledge becomes privatized? – Cross-pollination of ideas
– Reproducibility of research
– Global participation
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Tiffany Farriss discusses UN Open Source Week and digital sovereignty
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Tiffany Farriss appeared on the most recent episode of the Talking Drupal podcast to discuss the UN's Open Source Week, digital public infrastructure, and digital sovereignty.
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Yann LeCun sparked the open source AI movement revolution
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It's worth taking a moment to remember that @ylecun single-handedly kicked off the whole open source AI movement by persuading @finkd to open source a truly frontier AI model. It may turn out to be one of the most important moments in the history of AI.
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Kimi K2 sets benchmarks as first open-source thinking model since GPT-4
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Kimi K2 isn’t chasing benchmarks anymore, It’s setting them. The world’s first open-source thinking model is here.
And it just made the biggest leap since GPT-4. Try it yourself → http://
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All open-source, all public: best large model, November 2025
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All open-source.
All public. This is the best open-source and open-access large model you can get as of November 2025. -

Open-source Kimi model outperforms GPT-5 using 1/1000 compute
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Kimi just released the best open-source thinking model last week. It topped benchmarks like HLE and BrowseComp, even beating big closed-source models like Grok-4 and GPT-5. And get this: they pulled it off using just 1/1000 of the compute those closed models use. Absolutely
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Google AI agent builder vibe-coded, n8n remains relevant
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Google’s AI agent builder looks like it was vibe coded. n8n is still not going anywhere.