I’ve tested more AI tools than I can count, but only these four open-source gems made the cut because they're easy to use, private, and free. LocalAI is an open-source app that lets you run large ...

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and ...

French AI startup Mistral has weathered a rocky period of public questioning over the last year to emerge, now here in December 2025, with new, crowd-pleasing models for enterprise and indie ...

If Windows is your preferred operating system, consider these open-source apps. There are numerous open-source apps available for almost any task. These are all free to install and use on Windows.

Open Notebook is an open-source take on NotebookLM. Open Notebook can be installed and used for free. You do have to understand Linux and containers to deploy it. NotebookLM has become an incredibly ...

Earlier this year, Chinese startup DeepSeek made headlines by offering its free AI model DeepSeek-R1 that claimed to match ChatGPT-level performance. Now, Moonshot AI, another Chinese startup, has ...

Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Discover LTX-2 by Lightricks, the groundbreaking open-source AI model that generates synchronized audio and video. Explore ...