Open-Source Software

Musk says X will open-source its new feed algorithm next week, after the old Twitter code release became outdated.

Motorola unveiled its first smartwatch, the Moto Watch, highlighting up to 13-day battery life plus Polar-powered health tracking and dual-frequency GPS.

OpenAI introduced and open-sourced Whisper, a neural network for English speech recognition with near human-level accuracy and robustness.

OpenAI Scholars offers 6–10 stipends and mentorship for underrepresented individuals to study deep learning full-time for 3 months and open-source a project.

Bose will open-source the SoundTouch smart speaker API docs and extend support until May 6, 2026, so the devices can keep working after official support ends.

Game Arena is an open-source platform that rigorously measures AI intelligence by pitting top models head-to-head in games with clear win conditions.

Triton 1.0 is an open-source, Python-like language that lets researchers write near-expert-level GPU code for neural networks without CUDA.

RL-Teacher is an open-source tool that trains reinforcement learning agents using occasional human feedback instead of hand-crafted reward functions, especially when rewards are hard to define.

Bose is open-sourcing its SoundTouch smart speaker software as the product nears end-of-life to keep devices usable instead of bricking them.

Gemma Scope is an open suite of sparse autoencoders that helps the safety community interpret how language models work.

OpenAI is accepting applications for the 2019 OpenAI Scholars program, offering 6–10 stipends and mentorship for underrepresented individuals to study deep learning full-time for 3 months and open-source a project.

Roboschool is an open-source robot simulation software release integrated with OpenAI Gym.