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JetBrains Releases Mellum2.1: A 12B MoE Open Model for Coding Agents
JetBrains has released Mellum2.1, an open model built for coding agents and fast sub-agents. Mellum2.1 is a 12B mixture-of-experts thinking model from…
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“`html A British AI enthusiast is seeking advice on using a local Large Language…
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“`html A new benchmark for the Qwen 3.6-27B model has been conducted using an…
17 May 2026
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New math benchmark reveals AI models confidently solve problems that have no solution
“`html A new AI benchmark called SOOHAK has been created by a consortium of…
17 May 2026
Using Local LLMs for research
“`html A Reddit user, a computer science undergraduate named AggressiveMention359, seeks guidance on how…
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Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work
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