Great to see more competition in this space, and especially from Europe, but... it's a shame when the benchmarks don't include the current best comparable models. They shows results against Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 3, but Qwen 3.6 and Gemma 4 have been available for ~three months.
It tops benchmarks because it uses them in its training data. https://x.com/eliebakouch/status/2077425801633427919
https://nitter.net/eliebakouch/status/2077425801633427919
That is very disappointing.
Disappointing. Sounds like Volkswagen 2.0
How can we get these things to fight each other for sport? Real battle bots
Great to see more competition in this space, and especially from Europe, but... it's a shame when the benchmarks don't include the current best comparable models. They shows results against Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 3, but Qwen 3.6 and Gemma 4 have been available for ~three months.
Some other (as in better) sources I found:
- https://huggingface.co/spaces/Soofi-Project/Pretraining-Tech...
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.09424
"Fully open source model" with "Long-term, license-free availability for industry"
Nice trick to be not comparable with most other LLMs on the market, open weight or proprietary.
But I think, that's the right way.
I think this news is more about the infrastructure than the model.
Either way, happy to see two open models from outside the us-cn duopoly in the same week.
Better late than never. Germans have entered the chat
More like Nemotron 3 with benchmaxxing enabled has (re-)entered the chat.