Optics

Open source tool helps vision-language models 'see' more clearly

In the race to develop AI that understands complex images like financial forecasts, medical diagrams and nutrition labels, closed-source systems like ChatGPT and Claude are currently setting the pace, ...
Business Wire

Ultralytics Closes $30 Million Series A Funding Round to Accelerate Open-Source Vision AI

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ultralytics, a global leader in vision AI at the edge, has completed a $30 million Series A funding round led by Elephant with participation from SquareOne. “Ultralytics’ ...
SiliconANGLE

Computer vision startup Ultralytics raises $30M in funding

Ultralytics Inc., a developer of computer vision models, today announced that it has raised $30 million in funding. Elephant VC led the Series A round with participation from SquareOne. Ultralytics ...
VentureBeat

Z.ai debuts open source GLM-4.6V, a native tool-calling vision model for multimodal reasoning

Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI aka Z.ai has released its GLM-4.6V series, a new generation of open-source vision-language models (VLMs) optimized for multimodal reasoning, frontend automation, and ...
CRN

The 10 Coolest Open-Source Software Tools Of 2025 (So Far)

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...