MiniMax-M2 is the new king of open source LLMs (especially for agentic tool calling)

These scores place it at or near the level of top proprietary systems like GPT-5 (thinking) and Claude Sonnet 4.5, making ...

Canva just made Affinity’s entire design and editing software free for everyone

Affinity’s pro-grade design and editing tools are now free — no licence, no subscription, just download and start creating.
Nature

Open-source protein structure AI aims to match AlphaFold

The developers of OpenFold3 have released an early version of the tool, which they hope will one day perform on par with DeepMind’s protein-structure model.

AI optical microscope analyzes 2D materials as precisely as human experts

Haozhe "Harry" Wang's electrical and computer engineering lab at Duke welcomed an unusual new lab member this fall: ...
How-To Geek on MSN

I Installed These 5 Open-Source Apps When I Upgraded to Windows 11

NanaZip is a fork of the popular software 7-Zip,which allows you to create, open, or modify archive files. It offers a modern ...
MUO on MSN

The open-source drawing app I love just hit Android—here's how it holds up

Also, Krita has a larger community (mostly because it's free and open source) that contributes to its development and ...
Digital Camera World on MSN

Affinity Photo is now FREE for everyone as the editing software is reborn as Affinity Studio!

Canva launches Affinity Studio, pulling the entire Affinity software suite into one program amidst a bold new redesign and a ...