Asta open-sourced AstaBrief, an 8B model that generates cited scientific reports from a user question and retrieved literature excerpts. The company reported Fast mode averaging 51.1 seconds per report versus 178.5 seconds for Thinking mode. As a result, AstaBrief is available to download and run on institutions’ own infrastructure, with released training data and an example workflow for local PDF-to-report generation.
devpit launched as a native desktop app for running Claude Code agents with a watchable terminal view, a card board that triggers real work, and an orchestrator that manages projects together. The launch includes a free test with 20,000 credits. As a result, developers can run these AI coding agents locally-first with visible per-call costs and open-source tooling.
Cloudflare released two decision models, Clef and Clef-flash, hosted on Workers AI, and positioned them as structured, probability-based alternatives to more open-ended LLMs. Clef classifies rendered website domains in 2.2s in Cloudflare’s Threat Intelligence workflow. The models are API-compatible, offered as open source on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0, and Cloudflare is also adding a reinforcement-learning fine-tuning service to adapt Clef to customer use cases.
Open-sourcing AstaBrief, a fast report-generation model built in Asta for producing cited scientific reports from research questions and retrieved excerpts.
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