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Google DeepMind shipped four Gemma 4 model variants on April 2 under the OSI-approved Apache 2.0 license, replacing the restrictive Gemma Terms of Use and removing all barriers to commercial deployment, modification, and redistribution.
A 630-line Python script by Andrej Karpathy that lets AI agents autonomously run and iterate on ML experiments has become one of the fastest-growing open source projects of 2026, with Shopify's CEO among early adopters reporting double-digit performance gains.
The French AI startup ships its first text-to-speech model under open weights, offering enterprises voice cloning from three seconds of audio and 70-millisecond latency across nine languages.
Google Research unveils TurboQuant, a training-free compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by 6x and boosts inference throughput up to 8x, sending SK Hynix and Samsung shares down 5-6 percent.
GDC 2026 revealed a game engine industry converging on neural rendering: Microsoft added ML to DirectX shaders, Unreal shipped production Nanite foliage, Unity previewed unified GI, and Godot battled AI-generated pull request spam.
Los Alamos and University of New Mexico researchers built THOR, an open-source tensor network framework that computes configurational integrals for crystalline solids 400 times faster than molecular dynamics simulations.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.5, a 397-billion-parameter open-weight model that activates only 17B parameters per pass, beats rivals on instruction-following benchmarks, and ships at 1/18th the cost of Gemini 3 Pro.
China's Zhipu AI releases a 744-billion-parameter open-source model trained on Huawei Ascend chips that matches Claude and GPT on key benchmarks, sending its stock up 34 percent.