This week’s AI breakthroughs highlight the balance between privacy, accessibility, and multilingual intelligence:

🔒 Open Notebook emerges as a privacy-first, open source alternative to Google’s Notebook LM—giving researchers full control over workflows, data, and AI integrations.

🌍 Cohere for AI releases Aya 23, a powerful multilingual model supporting 23 languages, pushing the boundaries of inclusive, high-accuracy reasoning across global communities.

🤖 Gemma vs. Mistral—two open-source heavyweights—showcase different strengths, from code and math mastery to advanced reasoning and long-form coherence.

The AI landscape is evolving fast, blending open innovation with user-focused control.

Privacy-Focused Open Source Research Assistant

Open Notebook is an open source, privacy-focused alternative to Google's Notebook LM that allows users to take complete control over their research workflows, data, and AI integration. It supports multi-modal content (PDFs, videos, audio, web pages), gives users the flexibility to choose from over 16 AI providers (including OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, LM Studio, Google, and more), enables professional podcast generation, and offers intelligent search, context-aware AI chat, powerful content transformations, and a comprehensive REST API for automation. Designed for self-hosting, it ensures sensitive information remains private, provides detailed citations for research integrity, and is highly customizable with full support for Docker, local, or cloud deployments. The project features an active roadmap with frequent updates, a welcoming community, and robust documentation for easy onboarding and troubleshooting—all under the MIT license.

State-of-the-Art Language Model Supporting 23 Languages

Cohere for AI (C4AI), the research arm of Cohere, has announced the open weights release of Aya 23, a new multilingual language model available in 8B and 35B parameter variants that supports 23 widely spoken languages including Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, French, Spanish, and more. Aya 23 offers notable improvements over its predecessor Aya 101 as well as other open models like Google's Gemma and Mistral, with up to 41.6% higher accuracy in multilingual reasoning and superior performance on both discriminative and generative tasks. While the weights of Aya 23 are freely available for researchers to fine-tune and customize under a permissive license, full open sourcing (including training data and model architecture) is not provided. This release is part of Cohere’s ongoing Aya initiative to foster strong, inclusive multilingual AI models, representing a major advancement in bridging global language divides and empowering researchers and practitioners to build diverse language applications.

Pixel 10 Unpacked – Revolutionary AI Features and Design Upgrades

Google’s Gemma and Mistral are two competing open-source language models with distinct strengths. Gemma excels in mathematics, sciences, coding, and ethical alignment, while Mistral outperforms in logical reasoning, complex prompt understanding, commonsense reasoning, and question answering. Gemma shows superior performance on benchmarks like code generation and mathematical problem-solving, whereas Mistral is favored for long-form content coherence and advanced reasoning tasks. Both contribute to the democratization of AI technology, with model choice depending on specific application needs. Gemma requires user agreement for access and offers versatile, dynamic training methods, while Mistral provides open weights and curriculum learning for progressive improvement.

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Top AI Products from this week

• Marblism – xpander.ai is a A full stack development platform for AI engineers: MCP connectors and registry, stateful DB, AI gateway, testing environments with rollbacks, runtime and agent hosting. Run in the cloud or self-host. The studio where agents get designed, tested, and shipped.

• JoggAI AvatarX – Meet ultra-realistic AI avatars that go beyond looking alive, they feel alive. From subtle expressions to full-on emotions, AvatarX brings out every detail. Whether it’s a human face or a fictional character, bring it to life in a way that feels truly real.

• GitHub Copilot for Raycast – Create an API for anything in seconds. Get super fast response just paste any URL and describe the data you need in plain English. --> AI instantly creates a custom API that extracts exactly what you need. Get clean JSON data via

• Lumi.new - Lumi is an all-in-one platform to build and launch websites or lightweight apps just by chatting. Multi-language support, built-in database, auth, storage & analytics—no code, no integrations, works instantly. Even upload files for Lumi to learn..

• Dreambase.ai – Dreambase sits directly on top of Supabase, providing immediate, ful integrated analytics. Create product reports and dashboards directly from your Supabase data in seconds, no third party libraries or tools required! Get started for FREE.

• Taskey – Mail, chat, calendar, and tasks into one screen. Powered by AI to help you plan, reply, and finish faster. For makers, founders, and relentless doers. Taskey replaces your productivity apps, while your accounts stay the same.

• AppMaxxer - Building is easy, Cursor vibe-codes for you. Picking winners isn’t. AppMaxxer analyzes App Store data and TikTok/IG trends to find recently viral, high revenue app ideas. Built to help you differentiate, it flags untapped geographies and missing features.

This week in AI

• Claude Code vs GitHub Copilot - Claude Code is an autonomous coding partner for complex tasks and multi-file projects. GitHub Copilot offers fast real-time code completions in IDEs. Use both for best results.

• DeepResearchAgent Overview - DeepResearchAgent is a hierarchical multi-agent AI system for deep research and complex tasks, coordinating specialized agents for analysis, web search, and report generation.

• Chatterbox TTS - Open-source SoTA TTS model with zero-shot voice cloning, emotion exaggeration control, real-time synthesis, and neural watermarking. Outperforms ElevenLabs in tests.

• Alibaba AI Chip - Alibaba has developed a versatile AI chip for broad inference tasks, compatible with Nvidia software, aiming to reduce China’s reliance on Nvidia amid regulatory barriers

• NVIDIA AI Chip Lead - NVIDIA commands 80–90% of the AI accelerator market, doubling revenue to $130.5B in 2025. Its AI GPUs power cloud data centers globally amid surging demand.

Paper of The Day

The SEC is using AI tools to identify regulations that could be cut, focusing on reducing rules considered obstacles for businesses, including certain diversity and reporting requirements. This effort aligns with deregulation goals under the current administration but has faced criticism for inefficiency. The SEC aims to modernize oversight and streamline enforcement while maintaining governance. The initiative may lead to more timely enforcement and new AI-informed rulemaking, signaling increased AI integration in regulatory processes. Market participants should prepare for sophisticated AI-driven oversight ahead.

To read the whole paper, go to here.