Open-Source AI Models launch history

Introducing Qwen3.6-Plus from @Alibaba_Qwen, a 1M-context model built for real-world agents, agentic coding, and multimodal reasoning. AI natives can now use Qwen3.6-Plus on Together AI and benefit from reliable inference for production-scale agent workflows. https://t.co/s4Ysm1ZsKt

Physical AI needs to understand the world before it can act in it. Introducing Cosmos 3, the open world foundation model and the first omni-model for physical AI. It understands and generates across text, image, video, sound and action - thanks to a new breakthrough https://t.co/K5RyHTY7gW

Seedance 2.0 is now available in 1080p on Runway. More pixels, more detail, more reasons to zoom in. https://t.co/M4nldqYiLo

Introducing the Cosmos Coalition A new global initiative with NVIDIA and leading AI labs to build and open-source frontier world models for physical AI. Runway joins as a founding member, working alongside NVIDIA and a set of leading AI labs to build, share and accelerate world https://t.co/zWYwJuhS79

Small: 30 billion parameters, 3B active. Efficient: Benchmarks to 33.4 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Index, competitive among similar sized models. Open Source: Apache 2.0 license so developers can experiment, test, and build their way. Learn more: https://t.co/2xIxJR3xcr

Today we are introducing Runway Labs, a generative AI incubator led by our co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Alejandro Matamala Ortiz. Runway Labs will focus on broadly exploring the transformative power of AI video and General Worlds Models across all industries. From https://t.co/W3V5pNlMul

Voice AI calls just got a privacy upgrade. 🔒 @DeepgramAI now runs fully on-prem with encrypted audio and model weights, powered by @fortanix Confidential AI and NVIDIA Confidential Computing. Read the press release: https://t.co/h4yqRdFpMr https://t.co/mBcM1d5uPR

NVIDIA open models provide the foundation to innovate across agentic AI, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and research. 🤖 This release contributes 10 trillion language tokens, 500,000 robotics trajectories, and 100 terabytes of vehicle sensor data to the community. These https://t.co/ALZ7HKHtpT

NVIDIA and @EmeraldAi_ are announcing a new class of flexible AI factories at #CERAWeek 🔋 Working with partners AES, @ConstellationEG, @InvenergyLLC, @nexteraenergy, and VISTRA, this collaboration aims to speed up time to power and support grid reliability. These https://t.co/9TLCIjltCf

Building autonomous vehicles, robots, and vision AI takes more data than any team can collect on their own. At #CVPR2026, NVIDIA announced physical AI agent skills to help speed development: composable workflows that automate data generation, simulation, policy training and https://t.co/ZuHaTO683S

Introducing Mamba-3 🐍 Inference speeds are more important than ever, driven by the rise in agents and inference-heavy RL https://t.co/NREWrddURw

Krea 2 is the first of many upcoming releases towards making AI feel like a true creative medium. raw, flexible, unopinionated, and unconstrained. https://t.co/SYuEU6dNp0

Introducing v2 of our Open Deep Research app! Generate detailed reports on any topic with open source LLMs. Fully free & open source. We're releasing everything: evaluation dataset, code, app, and blog 🔥 https://t.co/pALfqYcwvE

Today we're announcing London as Runway's new European headquarters and our newest research hub focused on general world models. Over the next 18 months, we plan to invest $100M into the UK AI ecosystem, and that figure will more than double through 2028 as we scale our European https://t.co/gKQWlGPcJw

Learn how the NVIDIA platform and ecosystem enable AI model builders to launch frontier models faster, minimize training costs, and start generating revenue early. 🔗 https://t.co/tmSTzQDscB

Today we're also introducing the Runway Fund, an investment vehicle dedicated to backing the next generation of companies building across AI, media and world simulation. For the past several years, we've been investing quietly with this fund, backing a range of companies, https://t.co/jEz45Qlniz

Explore any world. Tell any story. All in one place. Kling 3.0 is now available in both Runway Workflows and Tool Mode. Discover all of the new models and capabilities available right inside of Runway at the link below. Morningstar Generated with AI. Made by @ceremonial_flux https://t.co/E0h6mFdiXo

These 12 open source teams brought the creativity, the engineering craft, and the “I need to try that” demos that make GitHub Universe special. Here's what they showcased this past year, and how you can join the next cohort in 2026. ⬇️ https://t.co/Op5ymad0lT

GPT Image 2 is now available on Runway. If you can dream it, you can see it. Down to the last detail. https://t.co/uBypCqHjZN

Seedance 2.0 is now available via the Runway API. Get started at the link below. https://t.co/EkvITtL3WL

M.1 and XS.2 remain available for free on our API and through @OpenRouter We are launching dedicated paid endpoints for both models on OpenRouter for more demanding work. Open weights are now our default. We’ll keep building toward the frontier and releasing increasingly

Custom voices are now available for Runway Characters. Design new voices from text prompts and start building Characters that sound exactly like you want them to. https://t.co/WfhS38JXPD

Today we are introducing Runway Builders, a program for Seed to Series C startups building the next generation of products and services with generative video and real-time conversational AI at their core. Participating companies receive complimentary API credits, our highest rate https://t.co/a6BFNehqoP

Runway Characters are now available in the Runway iOS app. Have a conversation on the go. Or point your camera at the world and talk to a character that can actually see what you see. Try it today at the link below. https://t.co/REcHWJmIw3

The 4-bit quant is now available, making our first open-source agentic coding model small enough to be run on a Mac. Get the weights here: https://t.co/8amCVzzunE

Introducing Astra 2. this high-quality video enhancer comes with fine-grained controls like creativity, realism, or sharpness. try it now👇 https://t.co/m5iaMnbc4C

introducing Ideogram v4.0. 2k native resolution, excellent text rendering, and support for JSON prompts. try it now in Krea. https://t.co/0U2ypOFHlW

Check out everything we launched today 👇 https://t.co/Mck7gcPr4c

Nano Banana 2 Lite is now available in Runway. Create images at warp speed, without compromising on quality. Get started at the link below or ask Agent to use Nano Banana 2 Lite. https://t.co/FlugLkeNmz

Introducing GLM-5.2 from @Zai_org, https://t.co/Pp24eiUBaD’s latest flagship open model for long-horizon tasks with 1M context, flexible thinking effort, and stronger agentic coding. Now available on Together AI, GLM-5.2 runs on research-powered inference for long-context, https://t.co/3BKhEwrysY