
Research
GLiNER2.5-Decide: An Open-Weight Model for Structured Decision Making
Introducing GLiNER2.5-Decide, a new classification encoder model fine-tuned for constrained decision making.

Research
American Open Weight Models: The Opportunity Ahead
Open weight models are gaining adoption across the AI industry, and American research labs have an opportunity to catalyze innovation through openness and collaboration with labs around the world.

Guide
What Early Open Weight Model Deployments Reveal About Production AI
Companies are deploying open weight models in production. We examine early deployment strategies, evaluation practices, and system design.

Guide
The Best Open Weight Models of Summer 2026
A recap of the best open-weight models of summer 2026 and which model to reach for depending on the task.

Research
How GLiNER Grew From NER Into Structured Extraction
From a PhD project to 45 million downloads: how GLiNER became GLiNER2.5, and why encoders still beat LLMs at extraction.

Research
Introducing GLiNER2.5: Efficient Span-Free Information Extraction with Schema-Driven Interface
A new boundary-prediction architecture replaces span enumeration, adding joint entity-relation extraction, constrained classification, and unlimited span length.

Guide
How to Use Open-Weight Models in 2026: A Developer's Guide
Open-weight models now rival the frontier, closed models. Compare Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4, GLM 5.3, Qwen 3.8 and more, with pricing, benchmarks, and how to switch.

Research
Introducing Fastino-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-Finance and Fastino-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-Healthcare
Two specialized open weight models for regulated industries, fine-tuned on NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning by the Fastino Fine-Tuning Agent.

Research
Small Model, Big Leverage: What We Learned Fine-Tuning NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning with an Autonomous Agent
Learnings from fine-tuning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning with an autonomous agent.
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