open models
3 published articles
Sovereign AI in Europe
Mistral promises AI sovereignty, and its 1 GW compute bet shows the catch
Mistral's sovereignty push now has concrete products: region-locked endpoints, an SLA-backed tier, and third-party model hosting starting with GLM-5.2. The hard part is compute, which rests on a coalition of commitments and a 1 GW target for 2030.
2026-08-13
Cloud Bottleneck
Ollama just stopped selling its premium plan because open models are eating its cloud alive
Open model demand doubled Ollama's traffic, then broke its subscription model. A bigger model is coming next week, and Ollama needs headroom.
2026-07-26
Multi-agent orchestration
Nemotron meets Fugu: Sakana AI's bet that open models win as a swarm, not alone
Sakana AI integrates NVIDIA's Nemotron open model family into the Fugu multi-agent orchestration system. Fugu dynamically selects and combines specialized models. The collaboration aims to show that coordinated open models can match monolithic frontier systems.
2026-07-23