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NASA and IBM launched a lunar science foundation model on September 10, 2026, trained primarily on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data and released with code.
Read analysisNVIDIA announced an open Earth-2 model family on January 26, 2026, covering accelerated weather AI tools and models for medium-range forecasting and nowcasting.
Read analysisUltralytics released YOLO26 on January 14, 2026, adding a unified vision family with an optional end-to-end detection route that omits NMS.
Read analysisAi2 released Molmo 2 on December 11, 2025, adding 4B, 8B and fully open 7B video-language variants with pointing and tracking artifacts.
Read analysisAi2 introduced the OlmoEarth platform on November 4, 2025, pairing open Earth-observation model work with tools intended for planetary insights.
Read analysisIBM released Granite-Docling-258M on September 24, 2025, an Apache-2.0 258M vision-language model for structured document conversion.
Read analysisTencent published the Hunyuan-MT technical report on September 5, 2025, describing 33-language translation and a separate Chimera refinement model.
Read analysisIBM announced Surya on August 20, 2025 as an open heliophysics foundation model developed with NASA for work with solar-observation data.
Read analysisMistral released Voxtral on July 15, 2025, with 24B and 3B speech-understanding models under Apache 2.0 and a separate transcription API route.
Read analysisMiniMax introduced open-weight M1 on June 16, 2025, with a stated 1M-token context and separate 40K and 80K thinking-budget variants.
Read analysisGoogle released TxGemma on March 25, 2025: 2B, 9B and 27B Gemma 2-derived models for therapeutic-data prediction and conversational research workflows.
Read analysisAI21 introduced Jamba 1.6 on March 6, 2025, naming Large and Mini variants with 256K context and private on-premises or VPC deployment paths.
Read analysisAi2 released olmOCR on February 25, 2025, pairing a fine-tuned 7B vision-language model with an open PDF-to-Markdown pipeline.
Read analysisHugging Face released SmolVLM2 on February 20, 2025, adding 2.2B, 500M and 256M vision-language models for small-device video workflows.
Read analysisAi2 released OLMo 3 in November 2025 with models, data, checkpoints, and training details. Complete openness still needs artifact versions and reproducible evaluation paths.
Read analysisMoonshot AI’s November 7, 2025 forum announcement named Kimi K2 Thinking; its undated project page supplies separate technical context.
Read analysisThe Boltz team introduced Boltz-2 on June 6, 2025, reporting an open model for joint biomolecular structure and binding-affinity prediction.
Read analysisGoogle introduced Gemma 3n on May 20, 2025, describing an open multimodal model designed for phones, laptops, and tablets.
Read analysisNVIDIA introduced Isaac GR00T N1 on March 18, 2025 as an open humanoid-robot foundation model with a reported dual-system architecture.
Read analysisAi2 released OLMo 2 32B on March 13, 2025 and described open training artifacts plus reported comparisons. A scale claim needs compute, data, checkpoint, and scorer context.
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