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Open Source AI Editor: First Milestone

June 30th, 2025 by the VS Code Team

Last month we shared our plan to make VS Code an open source AI editor . Today we reached the first milestone: the GitHub Copilot Chat extension is now open source on GitHub under the MIT license.

Why open source?

As we outlined previously , our primary motivation is community-driven innovation and increasing data transparency. We believe AI experiences can thrive by leveraging the vibrant open-source community - just as VS Code has successfully done over the past


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Alibaba unveils new AI model for more precise image creation

Alibaba’s headquarters on the outskirts of Hangzhou, Zhejiang province in eastern China. Photo: Reuters

Alibaba Group Holding has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) model, Qwen VLo, said to be capable of generating and editing images with a finesse akin to that of a human artist, intensifying the competition in multimodal models as the tech giant seeks to redefine itself as an AI leader.

Released on Friday, Qwen VLo was a “comprehensive upgrade” from previous models like QwenVL and Qwen2.5 VL, the company said. It

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Meet Mu, the small language model in charge of Microsoft's Settings AI agent

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In brief: Small language models are generally more compact and efficient than LLMs, as they are designed to run on local hardware or edge devices. Microsoft is now bringing yet another SLM to Windows 11, as users apparently need a few AI-powered hints to help them find specific OS settings and customize their PC experience.

Microsoft recently announced Mu , a new small language model designed to integrate with the Windows 11


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Mistral開源模型Small升級為3.2版

法國AI新創公司Mistral宣佈 開源模型Small由3.1版升級為3.2版,強化指令遵從、函式呼叫功能。

Small 3.2為一小改版,主要功能和Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instruct-2503一樣,而改進功能包括:更能精確遵從指令,會遵照用户


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Spurred by US sanctions, China adapts Huawei’s HarmonyOS for microsatellites

The CubeSat was carried outside the Tiangong Space Station for 253 days before being released into orbit in January 2024. Photo: CMSA

China has successfully tested a home-grown operating system in space , marking a major step towards reducing reliance on foreign software and boosting the performance of future small satellites.
More than 1,000 hours of in-orbit testing were conducted aboard the Dalian-1 Lianli CubeSat to evaluate how satellite subsystems performed under the OpenHarmony real-time operating system (RTOS) – a lightweight version of Huawei ’s open-source operation platform,
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Intel's OpenVINO 2025.2 Brings Support For New Models, GenAI Improvements

Intel open-source software developers this week released OpenVINO 2025.2 as the latest update to this prominent free software AI toolkit.

This quarterly update to the OpenVINO AI toolkit adds support for new large language models (LLMs) for execution on both CPUs and GPUs. Newly-supported models include Phi-4, Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3, SD-XL Inpainting 0.1, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large Turbo, Phi-4-reasoning, Qwen3,
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Microsoft Releases WSL 2.6 As The First Open-Source Release

Microsoft announced back in May at their Build developer conference that WSL would be going open-source . Todya Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.6 was released as their first new release now being an open-source project.

The WSL2 source code has been public since their Build 2025 announcement but today marks the first new feature release under the open-source flag. Microsoft open-sourced WSL in hoping to spur more community growth around it and making it easier in tracking down bugs and contributing to the project
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OpenBLAS 0.3.30 Released With Performance Improvements & Fixes

OpenBLAS 0.3.30 released this morning as the newest version of this optimized BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library for multiple CPU architectures.

OpenBLAS 0.3.30 ships a number of general fixes, including to address some performance regressions. There is also better detection for LLVM's modern Flang "flang-new" Fortran compiler. Plus more improvements around workload partitioning in parallel GEMM implementations.

OpenBLAS 0.3.30 also ships a number of x86_64 specific
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中國 MiniMax M1 開源推理模型  訓練成本僅 53 萬美元挑戰 OpenAI

繼 DeepSeek 成為 AI 界話題之後,上海人工智能公司 MiniMax 最近開源推理模型 M1,聲稱以僅 53.47 萬美元(約 HK$417 萬)的訓練成本,在性能上挑戰 OpenAI、Anthropic、Google 和中國競爭對手 DeepSeek。該模型採用 Apache 2.0 開源授權,企業可免費商用和


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DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model matches Google, Anthropic in coding benchmark

A DeepSeek poster seen during the 2025 Global Developer Conference on February 22 in Shanghai. Photo: VCG via Getty Images

The latest model update from Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek has matched the coding performance of industry heavyweights Google and Anthropic, according to the latest results from WebDev Arena, a real-time AI coding competition.

The updated version of DeepSeek-R1 tied for first place with Google’s Gemini-2.5 and Anthropic’s Claude