Columbia University Develops AI Research Assistant That Instantly Generates Research Reports from Topics, Objective and Realistic, Open Source for Everyone


The Allen Artificial Intelligence Institute has released the open-source video language model Molmo2 series, including 4B and 8B versions based on Alibaba's Qwen3, and a fully open-source 7B version based on Ai2Olmo, while also making the training data publicly available, demonstrating its commitment to open source.
IBM has launched the open-source AI assistant CUGA, aimed at automating enterprise workflows and completing more than half of the tasks. This tool helps knowledge workers efficiently handle daily or complex tasks through features such as multi-agent collaboration, API integration, and code generation, supporting secure and customizable personalization.
Claude CLI's flawed command generation during repository cleanup nearly wiped a user's Mac home directory, erasing years of work and highlighting automation tool risks.....
Meta plans to release an AI model codenamed "Avocado" in the spring of 2026, which may shift to being closed-source and was trained using Alibaba's open-source model Qwen. The news has attracted market attention, causing Alibaba's stock price to rise.
Microsoft open-sources the real-time speech model VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B, which offers extremely low latency and near-human voice performance. The model takes an average of only 300 milliseconds from text input to voice output, far less than traditional TTS models (1-3 seconds), achieving almost zero latency real-time speech synthesis.