GitHub · oss · models
Confirmed
vLLM — fast LLM serving
A high-throughput open-source engine for running large language models quickly.
Open source ↗AI Radar
What’s moving in AI — curated, dated, linked.
Last updated: 26 Oct 2026 · Curated picks — dates shown. Not a live scrape. Draft — not live until OK.
AI Radar is a hand-picked board of what’s worth your attention in AI: new models, open-source projects, lab announcements, papers, events and the tools people talk about in public. Every card is short: a title, one line on why it matters, where it came from, and the date we checked it. Click through and you go straight to the original source. We point; we don’t copy. It’s free, there’s no sign-up, and nothing here is a live feed.
How it works
Cards, labels and filters
About three times a week (usually Monday, Wednesday and Friday), a person reviews public sources and picks a handful of new cards. Every card shows a Checked date; the link always takes you to the source itself. Cards open in a new tab. We use the source’s own headline and write our own one-line summary; we never republish full articles. Tap a category chip or type in the search box to narrow the board.
Status labels
- Confirmed — stated by the company, project or organiser on its own site, repo or official account.
- Reported — covered by a named news outlet or newsletter but not yet confirmed by the source itself.
- Rumour — leaks, unnamed sources or social chatter. Used rarely; never in Today’s picks.
Honesty rails
- Curated, not scraped. We read public pages, RSS feeds and trending lists by hand. We don’t claim real-time coverage of X, newsletters or closed feeds.
- Dated sources. Every card carries the date we checked it. No date, no card.
- Link-out first. Where a site blocks automated checks, we link out and check it by hand.
- No pay-to-appear. Being on Radar is an editorial choice. If partner links are ever added, they will be labelled Ad and explained on /affiliates.
- Public accounts only. We link to public profiles and posts — never private follows or anything behind a login.
Today’s picks
Worth your time this week
A handful of things worth your time this week, chosen by a person and dated. Click through to the original.
Lab · HF
Confirmed
Hugging Face Blog
Models, OSS and community posts straight from the lab’s own blog.
Open hub ↗Event
Confirmed
NeurIPS 2026
Sydney, 6–12 December 2026 — main conference dates as shown on neurips.cc. Register on the organiser’s site.
Open NeurIPS ↗Trending on GitHub
Open-source picks
Open-source AI projects picking up attention, checked for a clear README, recent activity and a stated licence.
GitHub · oss · models
Confirmed
vLLM — fast LLM serving
Fast, high-throughput engine for serving large language models.
Open repo ↗GitHub · oss · models
Confirmed
llama.cpp — run models locally
Run language models locally, even on modest hardware. Now lives at ggml-org/llama.cpp.
Open repo ↗GitHub · tool
Confirmed
Ollama — local model runner
A simple way to download and run models on your own machine.
Open repo ↗GitHub · oss · models
Confirmed
Hugging Face Transformers
The shared model library most open-source ML work builds on.
Open repo ↗GitHub · image
Confirmed
ComfyUI
Node-based visual editor for image and video generation workflows.
Open repo ↗GitHub · agents
Confirmed
Gemini CLI
Google’s open-source AI agent for the terminal.
Open repo ↗GitHub · agents
Confirmed
Aider
An AI pair programmer that works in your terminal and your git repo.
Open repo ↗GitHub · tool
Confirmed
Whisper
Open-source speech-to-text model, still widely used.
Open repo ↗Model and company moves
From the labs
Announcements straight from the labs’ own blogs and release notes. We link the source; we don’t rewrite it.
Lab · HF
Confirmed
Hugging Face Blog
Models, OSS and community posts — core open ML lane.
Open hub ↗Lab · company
Confirmed
Anthropic News
Claude product and safety / policy updates from the company site.
Open news ↗Lab · company
Confirmed
xAI news
xAI models and company news — link the primary source; verify on publish day.
Open news ↗Events
Coming up
Conferences and meetups coming up in the next few months. Dates come from the organiser; register on their site.
Event
Confirmed
NeurIPS 2026
Sydney, 6–12 December 2026 (main conference dates as shown on neurips.cc).
Open NeurIPS ↗Event
Confirmed
ICLR
Flagship deep-learning conference; the site now lists ICLR 2027. Check dates on iclr.cc before relying on a card.
Open ICLR ↗Event · archive
Confirmed
ICML 2026
Seoul, 6–11 July 2026. Past event: archive link only, not for the upcoming shelf.
Open ICML archive ↗Worth reading
Newsletters, papers and longer pieces
Newsletters, papers and longer pieces that explain what changed and why it matters.
News · newsletter
Reported
Import AI
Research and policy depth — strong “Worth reading” source. Named newsletter, not a lab confirmation of any one story.
Open Substack ↗News · digest
Reported
TLDR AI
Dense weekday digest — good mine for Today’s picks.
Open TLDR ↗Papers
Confirmed
arXiv cs.AI recent
Preprints for the Radar papers section — RSS available.
Open arXiv ↗Papers
Confirmed
Hugging Face Papers
Daily paper buzz. Papers with Code now redirects here — we link HF Papers directly.
Open HF Papers ↗Tools in public use
Named in public
Tools that builders and researchers have named in public talks, posts or READMEs. Every card links the dated source.
Tools · practice
Confirmed
Simon Willison
Independent builder notes on LLM tooling — Atom feed live.
Open blog ↗GitHub · agents
Confirmed
OpenHands — software-dev agents
Open platform for software-dev agents — coding harness trend.
Open repo ↗Nothing matches that yet — try the tag agents, or clear your filters.
Honesty
How Radar stays trustworthy
AI Radar is curated by hand and updated about three times a week. Dates shown. Not a live scrape. Corrections welcome via the contact page. Affiliate / Ad badges only appear if a partner programme is approved later (see How we make money). Source pack seed: 22 news hubs · 12 GitHub samples · 20 public X accounts · 7 event calendars.