# open source
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OpenClaw’s Viral Rise Signals a New Age for Cheap, Deployable AI Agents — and New Risks
OpenClaw, an open‑source agent platform created by Peter Steinberger, has gone viral by turning chat messages into executable commands across multiple model APIs, accelerating demand for inexpensive, high‑throughput models and simple local hardware like the Mac Mini. The surge highlights opportunities for Chinese model providers such as Minimax and Kimi, while raising acute security, deployment and governance challenges.
SenseTime Open-Sources ‘Sense Nova‑MARS,’ Betting on Agentic Multimodal AI to Drive Execution‑Capable Applications
SenseTime has open‑sourced Sense Nova‑MARS, a multimodal Agentic VLM available in 8B and 32B parameter sizes that the company says can plan actions, call tools and deeply fuse dynamic visual reasoning with image‑text search. The move democratizes access to execution‑oriented multimodal models, accelerating research and product integration while raising safety and governance questions about agentic AI.
China’s 2026 AI Crossroads: Open‑source Infrastructure as the Antidote to Vendor Lock‑in
SUSE executives warn that 2026 is a decisive year for Chinese firms adopting AI: they must choose between the short‑term convenience of closed platforms and the long‑term freedom of open, interoperable infrastructure. SUSE positions SLES 16, long support cycles and observability tooling as solutions to vendor lock‑in, regulatory demands and runaway compute costs.
Alibaba Open‑Sources Qwen3‑TTS, Bringing Multilingual Voice Cloning to Developers
Alibaba’s Qwen team has open‑sourced Qwen3‑TTS, a family of text‑to‑speech models in 1.7B and 0.6B sizes supporting voice cloning and multilingual, dialect‑aware synthesis. The release aims to broaden developer access and accelerate voice applications while raising urgent questions about misuse, detection and governance.
Small, Open and Multimodal: Chinese Startup Releases 10‑Billion‑Parameter Vision‑Language Model Claiming SOTA Performance
Chinese start‑up Jieyue Xingchen open‑sourced Step3‑VL‑10B, a 10‑billion‑parameter multimodal model that the team says matches same‑scale state‑of‑the‑art performance on vision, reasoning, math and dialogue. The release highlights a push for efficient, deployable multimodal models and will prompt independent verification and community adoption.