Open Weights
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GPT and Claude failed Bridgewater's finance tests because the right answers were never public
Bridgewater and Thinking Machines Lab have developed a fine-tuned open-source AI model that outperforms commercial models in financial document analysis. The model, Qwen3-235B, achieved 84.7 percent accuracy at a significantly lower cost. This demonstrates the potential for companies to develop powerful AI solutions using their own proprietary data.

Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies
Hardwood is an open-source library for high-speed Apache Parquet processing in JVM environments. It provides a faster, simpler alternative to the traditional Apache Parquet Java implementation with zero mandatory dependencies and multi-threaded page decoding.

Leanstral 1.5: Proof Abundance for All
Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5, a free and open-source model for formal verification in Lean 4, achieving state-of-the-art results on several benchmarks. The model excels in agentic proof engineering and real-world code verification, uncovering previously unknown bugs in open-source repositories. Leanstral 1.5 is available via Hugging Face and a free API.