Top Text-to-Speech Models of 2026: Proprietary vs Open Source Compared

Open source TTS models Kokoro, Orpheus, and Piper are tested on symbols, abbreviations, and prosody with CER and MOS results.
ZDNet

China's open AI models are in a dead heat with the West - here's what happens next

Chinese AI models have caught up to US models in power and performance. China is leading in model openness. Much of the world may adopt the freely available Chinese technology. The US artificial ...
Forbes

What Leaders Need To Know About Open-Source Vs. Proprietary Models

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek logo is seen next to the Chat GPT logo on a phone on January 28, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo illustration by Anthony ...
CNBC

As nations build 'sovereign AI,' open-source models and cloud computing can help, experts say

Open-source AI models and cloud computing are helping to democratize the AI world, panelists at CNBC's East Tech West 2025 in Thailand said. This will allow nations to build "sovereign AI," which ...
CIO Dive

Google launches Gemma 4, an enterprise-grade open source AI model set

As vendors compete to power open source AI, CIOs should rely on a mix of open and proprietary models, Gartner VP Analyst ...
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How DeepSeek and Open-Source Models Are Shaking Up AI

(Bloomberg) -- Tech companies and academics have long wrestled with the risks and rewards of building open-source software. But the frenzy around generative artificial intelligence has lent new ...
Wired

The US Needs an Open Source AI Intervention to Beat China

Since 2022, America has had a solid lead in artificial intelligence thanks to advanced models from high-flying companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and xAI. A growing number of experts, ...
Gizmodo

OpenAI Finally Lives Up to Its Name, Drops Two New Open Source AI Models

For the first time in five years, OpenAI has released two new free and open-source AI models that are lightweight and designed to be easily integrated into other software programs. In a blog post on ...
Wired

Nvidia Will Spend $26 Billion to Build Open-Weight AI Models, Filings Show

The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek. Open source models are ones where the weights or the parameters that determine a model ...
TechCrunch

Zuckerberg signals Meta won’t open source all of its ‘superintelligence’ AI models

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his vision on Wednesday for “personal superintelligence,” the idea that people should be able to use AI to achieve their personal goals. Smuggled into the letter is a ...
CNET

OpenAI's New Models Aren't Really Open: What to Know About Open-Weights AI

OpenAI just dropped two new open-weights models. Here's why that isn't the same as being fully open. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video ...