Apache 2.0

Evidence (9)

• 8The New Stack·8/10/2026model_release
  Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a local multimodal open-source model

  Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30B-parameter multimodal model distilled for local, agentic use cases and licensed under Apache 2.0. Hugging Face highlights day-one support across transformers, llama.cpp, vLLM, and Inference Endpoints, along with benchmarks and architecture details showing its focus on privacy-aware coding, document analysis, and personal assistant workflows.

• 6Hacker News·8/6/2026funding
  Herdr joins Y Combinator while keeping its runtime open source

  Herdr, a terminal-based runtime for coding agents, is joining Y Combinator’s F26 batch after growing from a solo project into a widely used developer tool. The founder says the core runtime will remain free under Apache-2.0, while the company will build additional clients and connected features around it.

• 7Hacker News·8/4/2026model_release
  Mistral releases Shieldstral, a 3B multimodal safety model

  Mistral has released Shieldstral, a 3B open-weights safety classifier designed for text and image moderation. It treats moderation as a policy-driven question-answering task, allowing plain-language policies to be supplied at inference time without retraining, and is released under Apache 2.0.

• 5Hacker News·8/2/2026open_source
  RISC OS Open marks 20 years of open development

  RISC OS Open reflects on two decades since its 2006 founding, when it began opening up the proprietary RISC OS codebase to community participation. The post highlights major milestones including public source releases, stable RISC OS 5 updates, Raspberry Pi support, the Apache 2.0 relicensing, and the move to broader open collaboration.

• 5The New Stack·7/27/2026open_source
  Cloudflare open-sources its privacy proxy CLI

  Cloudflare has released pvcli, a command-line tool for debugging and testing privacy-preserving protocols such as Oblivious HTTP. The tool consolidates multi-step request flows into a single interface and is open-sourced under the Apache-2.0 license for contributions.

• 3Simon Willison·7/14/2026open_source
  Simon Willison’s custom Codex Desktop pet, Pedalican

  Simon Willison describes creating a custom Codex Desktop pet: a pelican riding a bicycle that animates on his desktop and reports on Codex tasks. He also details how GPT-5.6 Sol, along with multiple rounds of gpt-image-2, generated the sprite assets and notes that the implementation relies on open-source skills from OpenAI.

• 8Hacker News·7/14/2026breakthrough
  Bonsai 27B brings a 27B-class model to phones

  PrismML announced Bonsai 27B, a multimodal model based on Qwen3.6 27B that runs in low-bit form on phones and laptops. The release includes ternary and 1-bit variants, claims strong retention versus the full-precision baseline, and is available under Apache 2.0.

• 8Simon Willison·7/6/2026model_release
  Tencent releases Hy3 open model

  Tencent has released Hy3, an Apache 2.0-licensed Mixture-of-Experts model with 295B total parameters and 21B active parameters. The company says it was improved with feedback from more than 50 products and now offers strong performance on utility and productivity tasks, with free access on OpenRouter until July 21.

• 6Hugging Face Blog·6/1/2026model_release
  JetBrains introduces Mellum2, a 12B MoE model

  JetBrains has released Mellum2, an open 12B-parameter mixture-of-experts model trained from scratch on natural language and code. It activates only 2.5B parameters per token, is designed for low-latency, high-throughput inference, and is released under the Apache 2.0 license. The company says it is suitable for routing, RAG, summarization, sub-agents, coding workflows, and private deployment.