Which open-source LLM has surprised you the most this year, and how are you using it?
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OpenBench 0.3.0 Release: New Features and Improvements
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OpenBench 0.3.0 is here. And it’s stacked.
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CodeGemma FIM Support Expected in Upcoming Release
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I *really* hope a new CodeGemma with FIM support is one of the things in the oven! 😀
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Flowise and Workday Partner to Democratize AI Agent Building
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6/ Flowise x Workday We share the same vision as Workday – empowering teams to build and scale AI agents, without deep technical expertise. Together, we're deeply committed to the open-source community and investing to make Flowise even better.
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Flowise: Building LLM Applications Visually with No-Code
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1/ Beginnings Flowise began with a simple vision – to help people build LLM applications visually using frameworks like @langchain and @llama_index
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LM Studio and Ollama lack tool support capabilities
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Neither the LM Studio nor the Ollama builds support tools, so I've not tried to get that to work
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Google releases Gemma 3 with 270 million parameters
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270 million (not billion) parameters! https://
huggingface.co/google/gemma-3
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Google Releases Gemma3 270M Tiny LLM on KerasHub
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Google just dropped a new tiny LLM with outstanding performance — Gemma3 270M. Now available on KerasHub. Try the new presets `gemma3_270m` and `gemma3_instruct_270m`!
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Guardrails AI Launches: Long-time Follower Shares Support
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I have followed @guardrails_ai since they were founded and retweeted their previous launches.
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Meta releases DINOv3 computer vision model under commercial license
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To help foster innovation and collaboration in the computer vision community, we’re releasing DINOv3 under a commercial license with a full suite of pre-trained backbones, adapters, training and evaluation code, and (much!) more. Find them here: https://
github.com/facebookresear
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