#opensource

Meituan’s LongCat team released an audio-driven avatar video model with Diffusers examples and an MIT license on Hugging Face. The project compares against HeyGen, Kling Avatar 2.0, and OmniHuman-1.5.

ZOZO’s ppf-contact-solver brings a production-grade cloth and soft-body contact engine into the open. The headline number is more than 180 million contacts in one scene, plus Blender support and an Apache 2.0 license.

HY-World 2.0 turns text, images, multi-view inputs, or video into 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes. The stronger signal is reproducibility: the authors say model weights, code, and technical details are available.

Microsoft Research has open-sourced AgentRx, a framework for pinpointing the first critical failure in long AI-agent trajectories. It ships with a 115-trajectory benchmark and reports gains in both failure localization and root-cause attribution.

At KubeCon Europe, NVIDIA moved its GPU Dynamic Resource Allocation driver into the CNCF and upstream Kubernetes ecosystem. The company also tied the donation to confidential containers support, KAI Scheduler progress, and new tools for large-scale AI cluster orchestration.

A LocalLLaMA discussion around OpenCode shows why developers are experimenting with open, model-agnostic coding agents even when closed systems still lead on raw frontier performance.

A popular r/LocalLLaMA post highlighted a community merge of uncensored and reasoning-distilled Qwen 3.5 9B checkpoints, underscoring the appetite for behavior-tuned small local models.

Kitten TTS v0.8 drew Hacker News attention by promising ONNX-based speech synthesis in 15M to 80M models that can run locally on CPUs, while commenters stress-tested real-world usability.

Dify announced a $30 million Series Pre-A on March 10, 2026. The company paired the funding news with product changes aimed at broader enterprise adoption, including more free LLM credits, workflow tools, and stronger permission controls.

A r/MachineLearning project post (score 71, 12 comments) introduced <code>Micro Diffusion</code>, a minimal implementation inspired by <code>Microgpt</code>. The author released three versions (143-line NumPy, 292-line NumPy, 413-line PyTorch) that share the same diffusion loop while swapping denoisers.

A popular r/LocalLLaMA post details Heretic 1.2 with PEFT/LoRA updates, optional 4-bit processing, MPOA support, VL coverage, and automatic resume features for long local optimization runs.