The Open Source Ward Weekly (22 July 2025)
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Kimi-K2
The latest version of Moonshot AI's (backed by Alibaba) chatbot LLM is out and is already being called "Another DeepSeek moment" by Nature. The model is fully open-source with 32 billion parameters, promising performance that beats everyone on benchmarks (okay, everyone is beating everyone at release, but trust me).
Anyway, it is another strongly performing model that ends up open-source, which is always interesting, especially since Meta is considering stopping open-sourcing its models.
Scira
Scira is a minimalistic and open-source AI-powered search engine that can be seen as a lightweight Perplexity, the well-known AI-powered search chat. You can try it online here! It works with several LLMs like Grok, Mistral, Qwen, DeepSeek, GPT, and Gemini.
It is really interesting to see such products emerging, considering that just last week, Perplexity announced Comet, its own browser engine. There’s a real shift happening in the search and browser world, shaking up established players like Google or Mozilla. Is this some foreshadowing shenanigans regarding an article coming out this Thursday ? 😄 Subscribe to stay tuned and find out!
Markitdown
A lightweight Python utility for converting various files to Markdown for use with LLMs and related text analysis pipelines. It is managed by Microsoft and recently released its MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for integration with LLM applications like Claude Desktop.
Sniffnet
An application to monitor your Internet traffic, it is cross-platform, intuitive, and reliable. I personally gave it a try and found it pretty cool and easy to use.
Pangolin
Pangolin is a self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy server with identity and access control, designed to securely expose private resources on distributed networks. Acting as a central hub, it connects isolated networks — even those behind restrictive firewalls — through encrypted tunnels, enabling easy access to remote services without opening ports.
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