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FOSS(Free & Open-Source Software)/ Free AI tools:-

New Qwen3-VL models on Hugging Face

New Qwen-Image series on Hugging Face

Lightricks’ LTX-2 is now Open Source ─ a DiT model

This new model ‘GPT Image 1.5’ is available

‘Gemini 3 Flash’ for everyone as default in Google’s AI mode

FREE Adobe PS, Express & Acrobat apps for ChatGPT users

「Kling O1 Video」model launched

FLUX.2 models released

Meta’s “SAM 3D” Object & Body models are available

HK’s first AI Chatbot「HKChat 港話通」, supports Cantonese

‘Marble’ model from ‘World Labs’ offers FREE trial (limited regions)

Moonshot AI’s ‘Kimi K2 Thinking’ model

OpenAI’s “Sora app” now available on Android

FOSS「DreamOmni2」─ AI Image Editing Model from Hong Kong

Veo 3.1 released (Free trial)

Mozilla’s ‘Firefox’ adds ‘Perplexity AI’ as an optional Search Engine

Perplexity’s ‘Comet AI Browser’ now FREE for everyone

HunyuanImage 3.0/混元图像3.0 has taken the #1 spot in LMArena

‘Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B’ versions are available in HF, GitHub & ModelScope

OECD published an “AI Openness” Report

Meshcapade.Me v2.22.8 is FREE for trial

“GIMP Plugins with ComfyUI” & “ComfyUI Nodes” available

FREE Nano Banana in Hugging Face, by Openfree

Demo of USO in HF Space, created by ByteDance UXO Team

Stepfun/阶跃星辰 ‘NextStep-1’— 14B Autoregressive Image Gen.

Qwen-Image/通义千问-文生图 — 20B MMDiT model

Vidu Q1 — Multi-References-to-Video generation model

‘FLUX.1-Krea-dev’— Krea’s latest Open Image Generation model

‘ViTPose Transformers’ supports ‘Supervision 0.26.x’

New version of ‘Trellis 3D AI’ — a MicrosoftOpenSource proj.

FREE ‘YVO3D Beta’ offers 150 credits per month

Morphic AI launched “One-shot Character Model” feature

Baidu open-sourced ERNIE (文心) 4.5 model family

ByteDance-SeedVR2-3B available in Hugging Face

Tencent’s “Hunyuan3D”(騰訊混元 3D) v2.1 is available

Use “Flux Kontext” to generate 3D rendered floor plans

ByteDance released ‘BAGEL’ which understands images!

‘Cobra’– AI model for Comic Colouring 漫畫線稿自動上色AI工具

StepFun阶跃星辰 released Step1X-3D v1.0.1

‘Deep Dream Generator’ released ‘Realismo 4.0 Beta’

Tencent’s web-based Hunyuan 3D 騰訊混元3D v2.5

Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics – OS AI robots

Access to ‘Yuanbao’ & ‘QwQ-32B’

“4 Chinese AI startups to …” from MIT Technology Review

‘SuperSplat v2.0’- FOSS 3D Gaussian Splat Editor

‘Tülu-3-405B’ by Ai2(Allen Institute for AI) is completely Open-Source

DeepSeek-R1 webUI & Distill-Models

FREE ComfyUI-BlenderAI-Node Addons

Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large

FREE AI Image Generator – PicLumen

SV3D is a generative model synthesis based on Stable Video Diffusion (stability.ai)

TripoSR – AI image-to-3D model, by Tripo.ai and Stability.ai

ChatAvatar Beta v0.7 – Text/Image to 3D Avatar

SayMotion 2.0 is FREE for Non-commercial projects (Text-to-3D Animation)

MoStudio, MoGen & MoGlow (Motorica’s AI motion synthesis tools)

Open-Source Full-Body Motion Dataset, by Unitree

OpenAI announced DALL·E 3

Deepfaked Keanu Reeves in use of MetaHuman & DeepFaceLab

Digital Tom Cruise made with UE’s MetaHuman & DeepFaceLive 2

What is the best AI image generator overall? Reported by ZD Net

FOSS/Free 3D tools:-

FOSS Blender 5.0 LTS

Epic’s Unreal Engine 5.7 (Major Upgrades)

Epic’s Twinmotion 2025.2 (FREE for indie artists)

SuperSplat Editor v2.17.2, by PlayCanvas

FOSS Game Engine & Web Editor – Godot 4.5.1

RealityScan Mobile 1.8 from UE

FOSS 3D Reconstruction – Meshroom 2025.1.0

Free interior design S/W & App. – Sweet Home 3D 7.5.17

Open Source Metaverse / Free Metaverse info:-

Learn about local Metaverse projects’ info.

Latest Metaverse Info. from M3 & HackMD

Ethereal Engine v0.4.6 (WebXR Engine) – Create RT 3D Web

Ready Player Me & its plugins – FREE Avatar Creator

FOSS/Free 2D tools:-

Powerful Alternative to Illustrator – Inkscape 1.4.3

Handy Alternative to PS – Paint.net 5.1.11

Powerful Alternative to PS – GIMP 3.0.6

Powerful Alternative to ID – Scribus 1.6.5

FREE web-based motion design & video editor — Pikimov 4

Browser-based FOSS “Graphite” Alpha 4

FOSS Compositing Software For VFX – Natron 2.5.0

Powerful 2D Animation FOSS – OpenToonz 1.7.1

Other FOSS/Freebies:-

FREE UE courses and learning content for film & TV

FREE “Game Animation Sample” for UE5.4

FOSS Video platform – PeerTube

Alternative to Zoom – FOSS Jitsi Meet

Cesium for UE 2.20.0 with “Google Maps 2D Tiles” feature

FREE Open Street Map & Terrain Add-on for Blender

AI Tutorials for ‘Bing Ai’ & ‘Bing Image Creator’

UE 5 Beginner Tutorials