How to Choose an Open-Source AI Model: A 6-Step Guide
At this point, you understand the fundamentals. Open-source AI models deliver measurable benefits—namely lower costs, greater deployment control, and freedom from vendor lock-in. Now comes the hard part: Choosing which model to actually use. Public repositories contain over 2 million models, each with different capabilities and resource requirements. Teams often spend weeks evaluating options, only to […]
New Release: Anaconda Distribution 2025.12
We are excited to announce the 2025.12 release of the Anaconda Distribution installer, which includes: Python – the most widely used programming language for AI, data science and machine learning conda – the open-source, cross-platform package and environment manager Anaconda Navigator – our desktop application, built on conda, that enables you to launch notebooks and […]
Python 3.14: What Data Scientists and Developers Need to Know
Python 3.14 is here, and the data science community is already buzzing experimenting with new features. As maintainers of one of the world’s largest scientific Python distributions, we at Anaconda want to help you prepare for this upcoming release and understand what it means for your data science workflows. What is the annual Python release […]