Apache 2.0
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Apache 2.0 is the license cited across multiple recent AI releases in the coverage, including Perplexity’s SPACE Firecracker microVM sandbox (release 0.8.0), Reflection’s Beam 501B open model, Google DeepMind’s EmbeddingGemma 2 multimodal embedding model, and planned or released sandboxing tools such as nFOX Lab’s Blockhouse. The coverage positions Apache 2.0 as a common basis for publishing models and infrastructure intended for self-hosting, on-device, or enterprise-controlled deployments.
Updated 18 October 2026
Latest developments
NVIDIA Open Sources Run:ai Under Apache 2.0 for Kubernetes GPU Orchestration
MarkTechPost · 14 hours ago ·
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Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents
MarkTechPost · 2 days ago ·
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Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale
Hugging Face · 3 days ago ·
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Startup nFox to open-source its ‘sandbox’ for open AI models
SiliconANGLE · 4 days ago ·
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Meet the Underdog Saluki 27B: A 2-bit Qwen3.8-27B That Beats the Original at Tool Calling
MarkTechPost · 1 week ago ·
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Google launches private multimodal search powered by ‘EmbeddingGemma 2’
Google · 1 week ago ·
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Meta AI Open-Sources Rebalancer: A C++ Assignment Solver That Runs About 40 Million Placement Problems a Day
MarkTechPost · 1 week ago ·
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EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Google · 1 week ago ·
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October 2026
Reflection AI releases Beam, an Apache 2.0 open-weight 501B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts LLM with deployment options on Hugging Face and AWS Open source release
Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, the Firecracker microVM sandbox used to run its Computer agent tasks Open source release
Google DeepMind launches EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model for on-device cross-modal search and retrieval Model release
Reflection AI releases Beam, a sparse mixture-of-experts open-weight model for coding and agentic tasks Open source release
Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, an open-weight English-German mixture-of-experts language model on Hugging Face Open source release
Cloudflare released open-weight decision models Clef and Clef-flash and hosted them on Workers AI for probability-based classification and agentic workflows Open source release
- NVIDIA Open Sources Run:ai Under Apache 2.0 for Kubernetes GPU Orchestration
- Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents
- Welcome Beam: a 501B open model you can own, customize, and scale
- Startup nFox to open-source its ‘sandbox’ for open AI models
- Meet the Underdog Saluki 27B: A 2-bit Qwen3.8-27B That Beats the Original at Tool Calling
- Google launches private multimodal search powered by ‘EmbeddingGemma 2’
- Meta AI Open-Sources Rebalancer: A C++ Assignment Solver That Runs About 40 Million Placement Problems a Day
- EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
- Google DeepMind Releases EmbeddingGemma 2, a 740M Open Multimodal Embedding Model Built on Gemma 4
- Google EmbeddingGemma 2
- Beam: Reflection AI Takes Aim at China’s Lead in Open A.I. Models
- [AINews] Reflection Beam - 501B-A23B American Open Model
- MausBot
- Reflection AI Introduces Beam: A 501B Open-Weight MoE Model With 23B Active Parameters for Coding and Agentic Workloads
- Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri: A 78.1B Open-Weight English-German MoE Model With Only 3.46B Active Parameters
- Datalab Introduces OmniExtractBench to Fix Bias and Opacity in Extraction Benchmarks
- Introducing Clef Decision Models
September 2026
Fastino Labs and Supersonic Labs released new open-weight, CPU-deployable decision models (GLiNER2.5-Decide and Julia 1) Model release
- NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform: OpenShell Sandboxes Agents on Vera CPUs While Sentry on BlueField-4 Quarantines Them in Milliseconds
- Supersonic Labs Releases Julia 1: A 144.3M-Parameter Open Decision Model That Runs on a CPU
- Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community
- Google Open-Sources Mantis: A Modular Skills Toolkit That Lets Coding Agents Find, Reproduce and Patch Vulnerabilities
- IBM releases SOTA Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 model with commercial-friendly license
August 2026
Meta released Muse Glimmer, an open-weights multimodal 30B model for local agentic and tool-using tasks under the Apache 2.0 license Open source release
Meta releases Muse Glimmer, an open-weight multimodal AI agent model with plans to open weights for Muse Spark 1.2 Open source release
Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weights multimodal agent model designed to run locally on consumer GPUs Open source release
- Meet ‘Code-as-World’: An Agentic Loop That Rewrites Real Videos Into Executable MuJoCo Physics Programs
- IBM Releases Granite 4.2: Bringing Native Reasoning and Agentic RL to Open Enterprise Models
- Granite 4.2 brings native reasoning to enterprise agents
- Fastino Releases GLiNER2.5: A Boundary-Prediction Architecture That Removes Span Enumeration From Information Extraction
- X Open Sources Its Algorithm And Reveals What it Takes to go Viral
- Alibaba’s new model promises Opus 4.6-level performance on your laptop
- Meta stopped worrying about distillation and just shipped the pipeline
- Xiaomi’s MiLM Plus Releases PROVE: Perception-Aligned Object Removal Metrics RC-S and RC-T With a Real-World Video Benchmark
- [AINews] Muse Glimmer and Spark: Open Weights return Personal Superintelligence promise
- Introducing Muse Glimmer
- Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision
- Meta AI Releases Muse Glimmer: A 30B Open-Weights Agentic Model That Runs on One Consumer GPU
- Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source
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Products & technology
- Meta integrated with this regulation · 2 sources
- IBM integrated with this regulation · 2 sources
- EmbeddingGemma 2 integrated with this regulation · 2 sources
- Alibaba integrated with this regulation · 1 source
- Google integrated with this regulation · 1 source
- MirroS integrated with this regulation · 1 source
- X integrated with this regulation · 1 source
- Julia 1 integrated with this regulation · 1 source
- OpenShell integrated with this regulation · 1 source
- Saluki 27B integrated with this regulation · 1 source
Regulation
- Muse Glimmer regulated by this regulation · 2 sources
- Regulated by Beam · 1 source