Qwen 3.5: Alibaba's Open-Weight AI Is Quietly Challenging GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 (2026 Guide)

Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 can analyze two-hour videos, execute agentic workflows autonomously, and run on your own hardware — and it's challenging GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on key ben...

https://wowhow.cloud/blogs/qwen-3-5-alibaba-open-weight-ai-challenges-gpt-gemini-2026

#wowhow #qwen #alibaba #opensourceai

Tested Mistral Small 3.1 24B on my RTX 5060 Ti -- 14.4GB VRAM, 20 tokens/sec, and barely 1.6GB of breathing room left on the card.

Slow? Yes. Worth it? Surprisingly, yes.

The output quality has no business being this good on a model pressed against the VRAM ceiling. Badly wish I had a better card. This thing's good!
Full benchmark breakdown on the blog -- link in comments.

#AI #LocalLLM #Ollama #HomeLabAI #Mistral #OpenSourceAI

https://goarcherdynamics.com/2026/03/30/aihome-mistral-3-1-small-24b-review/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super: The Open AI Model That Just Beat GPT on Coding (March 2026)

NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Super at GTC 2026 — a hybrid Mamba-Transformer model with the highest SWE-Bench Verified score of any open-weight model (60.47%) and 2.2x the throughp...

https://wowhow.cloud/blogs/nvidia-nemotron-3-super-open-ai-model-beats-gpt-coding-2026

#wowhow #nvidia #nemotron #opensourceai

Scaling Sustainable and Cost-Efficient LLMs with vLLM and llm-d

📅 Wednesday, 20 May, 16:00
📍 Berner Fachhochschule, Bern

Camille Nigon is a Solutions Architect at Red Hat and will talk about how to make LLMs efficient and scaling their sustainability.

👉 Discover the full programme and register now: https://www.ch-open.ch/open-source-ai-workshops/

#OpenSourceAI #Conference #AI #OpenSource #CHOpen

👏 A Practical Guide to Fast and Private LLMs

📅 Wednesday, 20 May 2026
📍 Berner Fachhochschule, Bern

Lena Fuhrimann is founder at bespinian and a speaker.

👉 Discover the full programme and register now: https://www.ch-open.ch/open-source-ai-workshops/

#OpenSourceAI #Conference #AI #OpenSource #CHOpen

Sovereign AI: Building Independent AI Infrastructure with Open Source

📅 Wednesday, 20 May, 15:40
📍 Berner Fachhochschule, Bern

Aarno Aukia is the co-founder of VSHN. VSHN transforms software into online services with Open Source.

👉 Discover the full programme and register now: https://www.ch-open.ch/open-source-ai-workshops/

#OpenSourceAI #Conference #AI #OpenSource #CHOpen

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/27/cohere-open-source-transcribe-model-tops-asr-leaderboard-xcxwbn/

Cohere's Open-Source Transcribe Model Tops ASR Leaderboard

#AI #Cohere #CohereTranscribe #SpeechRecognition #AITranscription #OpenSourceAI #HuggingFace #MultimodalAI

Mozilla and Mila team up on open source AI push as Big Tech tightens its grip

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/mozilla-mila-open-source-ai/

RE: https://social.bund.de/@zendis/116294444592936811

Interesting. German centre for digital sovereignty @zendis has published a first proposal of "sovereignty criteria" and launched an open consultation process on them. I agree, when they state that "Digital sovereignty is vital for public administration. But what criteria for digital sovereignty should be followed? How can success be measured?" #OpenSource #OpenSourceAI #digitalSovereignty