Jorick van Weelie
Marketing Lead at DataNorth | AI Enthusiast & Tech Storyteller
Articles written by Jorick van Weelie
AI grants and funding in Europe: what your company can
European companies can fund AI through EU grants, free compute and advice, national R&D tax credits and EIB-backed loans. Almost none of it pays for buying AI; it pays for
Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-DSpark draft models
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-DSpark on 20 August 2026: three draft models giving up to 3.18x faster decoding on LFM2.5, with identical output.
xAI’s Grok 4.6 reaches Amazon Bedrock
Grok 4.6 went generally available on Amazon Bedrock on 19 August 2026 at $2 and $6 per million tokens, with a US-only inference profile.
Ornith releases Ornith-1.5
Ornith released Ornith-1.5 on 19 August 2026 in 397B, 35B and 9B sizes under MIT, scoring 86.1 on Terminal-Bench 2.1. Weights on Hugging Face.
The AI assessment: What it delivers, and what it costs
An AI assessment examines where AI can take over work in your organisation and ends in a scored list of opportunities, a shortlist with business cases, and a roadmap. What
Tencent releases UI-Mate-27B
Tencent released UI-Mate-27B on 17 August 2026, an Apache 2.0 open-weight computer use agent scoring 77.0 on OSWorld-Verified, above Kimi-2.6.
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3
GLM-5.3 is Z.ai's post-training only upgrade to GLM-5.2, released 14 August 2026, with a 1,000,000 token context window, 28.3 percent on Terminal-Bench 3.0 and 84.5 percent on CyberGym on Z.ai's
Dots studio releases dots3-note Preview
dots3-note Preview is Xiaohongshu's first public dots3 model, released 14 August 2026 under Apache 2.0, with 280 billion total and 16 billion active parameters, a 512,000 token context window and
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-27B
Qwen3.8-27B is Alibaba's 27B dense multimodal open weights model, released 14 August 2026 under Apache 2.0, with a 262,144 token context window and 61.7 percent on SWE-bench Pro on Alibaba's
DeepSeek releases V4-Pro-0813 and open sources Harness v0.1
DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 is the production release of DeepSeek's flagship model, available since 13 August 2026 with a one million token context window, 87.9 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 on DeepSeek's own harness, alongside
Google releases Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini 3.7 Flash is Google's new low cost coding and agent model, released 13 August 2026, with a 1,048,576 token context window, 65.3 percent on DeepSWE v1.1 on Google's own
xAI releases Grok 4.6
Grok 4.6 is xAI's new flagship large language model, released 12 August 2026, scoring 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and priced from 2 dollars per million input tokens
Google DeepMind releases SL2T: Sign language to text model
SL2T is Google DeepMind's new massively multilingual sign-language-to-text model, announced 12 August 2026, that brings ASL-to-English dictation to Gboard and Live Transcribe on the Pixel 11 from 20 August 2026.
LTX releases LTX-2.5: Open weights video world model
LTX-2.5 is an open weights world model for video, real time applications and robotics, released by LTX on 11 August 2026, generating a 10 second 720p clip in 6.8 seconds
The complete guide to Meta AI: Models, local deployment, cloud
Meta AI is both a free assistant across WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, and the umbrella for Meta's open-weight Llama models. This guide covers the full model lineup, how to run
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is NVIDIA's open 30 billion parameter mixture of experts model with 3 billion active parameters, released on 11 August 2026 for the execution layer of long running
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber
GPT-5.6-Cyber is OpenAI's cybersecurity-specific model, launched on 10 August 2026 through the Daybreak Red tier for vetted defenders, with a 95.0% completion rate on OpenAI's internal advanced cybersecurity evaluation.
Meta releases Muse Glimmer: Agentic Model
Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter open-weights agentic model from Meta, released on 10 August 2026 under Apache 2.0 and designed to run local agents on a single consumer GPU.
SpaceXAI releases Grok Imagine Image 2.0
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 is an editing-focused image model that ranks second globally on Arena's text-to-image and image-edit leaderboards, behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-2, with a broader API still to come.
Knowledge Graphs: What they are and why they matter
A knowledge graph is a machine-readable map of your entities and the relationships between them. It answers questions that span many systems at once, with a traceable path to every
