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StarCoder and StarCoderBase are Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs) trained on permissively licensed data from GitHub, including from 80+ programming languages, Git commits, GitHub issues, and Jupyter notebooks. Similar to LLaMA, we trained a ~15B parameter model for 1 trillion tokens. We fine-tuned StarCoderBase model for 35B Python tokens, resulting in a new model that we call StarCoder. We found that StarCoderBase outperforms existing open Code LLMs on popular programming benchmarks and matches or surpasses closed models such as code-cushman-001 from OpenAI (the original Codex model that powered early versions of GitHub Copilot). With a context length of over 8,000 tokens, the StarCoder models can process more input than any other open LLM, enabling a wide range of interesting applications. For example, by prompting the StarCoder models with a series of dialogues, we enabled them to act as a technical assistant.

The next generation of our open source large language model. This release includes model weights and starting code for pretrained and fine-tuned Llama language models — ranging from 7B to 70B parameters. Llama 2 pretrained models are trained on 2 trillion tokens, and have double the context length than Llama 1. Its fine-tuned models have been trained on over 1 million human annotations. Llama 2 outperforms other open source language models on many external benchmarks, including reasoning, coding, proficiency, and knowledge tests. Llama 2 was pretrained on publicly available online data sources. The fine-tuned model, Llama-2-chat, leverages publicly available instruction datasets and over 1 million human annotations. We have a broad range of supporters around the world who believe in our open approach to today’s AI — companies that have given early feedback and are excited to build with Llama 2.

Code Llama is a large language model (LLM) that can use text prompts to generate code. Code Llama is state-of-the-art for publicly available LLMs on code tasks, and has the potential to make workflows faster and more efficient for current developers and lower the barrier to entry for people who are learning to code. Code Llama has the potential to be used as a productivity and educational tool to help programmers write more robust, well-documented software. Code Llama is a state-of-the-art LLM capable of generating code, and natural language about code, from both code and natural language prompts. Code Llama is free for research and commercial use. Code Llama is built on top of Llama 2 and is available in three models: Code Llama, the foundational code model; Codel Llama - Python specialized for Python; and Code Llama - Instruct, which is fine-tuned for understanding natural language instructions.

Yi-Large is a proprietary large language model developed by 01.AI, offering a 32k context length with both input and output costs at $2 per million tokens. It stands out with its advanced capabilities in natural language processing, common-sense reasoning, and multilingual support, performing on par with leading models like GPT-4 and Claude3 in various benchmarks. Yi-Large is designed for tasks requiring complex inference, prediction, and language understanding, making it suitable for applications like knowledge search, data classification, and creating human-like chatbots. Its architecture is based on a decoder-only transformer with enhancements such as pre-normalization and Group Query Attention, and it has been trained on a vast, high-quality multilingual dataset. This model's versatility and cost-efficiency make it a strong contender in the AI market, particularly for enterprises aiming to deploy AI solutions globally.

Composer 1.5 is the latest agentic coding model from Cursor that balances speed and intelligence for everyday code tasks by scaling reinforcement learning approximately 20x more than its predecessor, enabling stronger performance on real-world programming challenges. It’s designed as a “thinking model” that generates internal reasoning tokens to analyze a user’s codebase and plan next steps, responding quickly to simple problems and engaging deeper reasoning on complex ones, while remaining interactive and fast for daily development workflows. To handle long-running tasks, Composer 1.5 introduces self-summarization, allowing the model to compress and carry forward context when it reaches context limits, which helps maintain accuracy across varying input lengths. Internal benchmarks show it surpasses Composer 1 in coding tasks, especially on more difficult issues, making it more capable for interactive use within Cursor’s environment.

Qwen3.6 is a large language model developed by Alibaba as part of its Qwen AI model family, designed for real-world applications and advanced reasoning tasks. It focuses on improving stability, usability, and performance compared to earlier versions. The model supports multimodal capabilities, allowing it to process and reason across text, images, and other data types. Qwen3.6 is particularly strong in coding and developer workflows, offering improved accuracy for complex programming tasks. It uses a mixture-of-experts architecture, enabling efficient performance while maintaining large-scale model capabilities. The model is designed to be deployable in production environments, including enterprise and cloud-based systems. It can be integrated into applications or run locally using open-weight variants. Overall, Qwen3.6 delivers a powerful, efficient, and versatile AI solution for modern use cases.

Lumen Outpost is Cosine’s targeted post-trained coding model, benchmarked against Kimi K2.6, its base model, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on highly complex, long-horizon coding tasks across 13 programming languages. The model is specialized not only for raw coding accuracy, but also for behavioral signals that matter in professional engineering workflows, including agent initiative, planning, scope discipline, action alignment, concise updates, and useful communication. Cosine’s benchmark report shows that highly targeted post-training transformed the base model’s capabilities, with Lumen Outpost outperforming Kimi K2.6 across Niche-Bench, Slop-Bench, Vibe-Bench, and cost per successful task. On Niche-Bench, an internal evaluation for niche, legacy, and environment-constrained programming languages, Lumen Outpost achieved a 53.9% score and led or tied in 9 of 13 assessed languages, with notable gains in Fortran, ABAP, Java, and Rust.

PaLM 2 is our next generation large language model that builds on Google’s legacy of breakthrough research in machine learning and responsible AI. It excels at advanced reasoning tasks, including code and math, classification and question answering, translation and multilingual proficiency, and natural language generation better than our previous state-of-the-art LLMs, including PaLM. It can accomplish these tasks because of the way it was built – bringing together compute-optimal scaling, an improved dataset mixture, and model architecture improvements. PaLM 2 is grounded in Google’s approach to building and deploying AI responsibly. It was evaluated rigorously for its potential harms and biases, capabilities and downstream uses in research and in-product applications. It’s being used in other state-of-the-art models, like Med-PaLM 2 and Sec-PaLM, and is powering generative AI features and tools at Google, like Bard and the PaLM API.

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro is an advanced open-source AI model designed to handle complex, long-horizon tasks with strong agentic capabilities. It features a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with over one trillion parameters and a large context window of up to one million tokens. The model is built to perform sophisticated reasoning, coding, and problem-solving across extended workflows. It demonstrates high performance on benchmark tests related to software engineering, reasoning, and general intelligence. MiMo-V2.5-Pro can autonomously complete complex projects, such as building full software systems or optimizing engineering designs. It uses hybrid attention mechanisms to balance efficiency and performance across long contexts. The model is also optimized for token efficiency, reducing computational cost while maintaining strong results. By combining scalability, efficiency, and advanced reasoning, MiMo-V2.5-Pro represents a major step forward in open-source AI models.

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 is an advanced open-source AI model designed to combine strong agentic capabilities with native multimodal understanding. It can process and reason across text, images, and audio within a single unified system. The model uses a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with hundreds of billions of parameters for efficient performance. It supports an extended context window of up to one million tokens, enabling long and complex workflows. MiMo-V2.5 is built to handle tasks such as coding, reasoning, and multimodal analysis with high accuracy. It incorporates dedicated visual and audio encoders to enhance perception and cross-modal reasoning. The model demonstrates strong benchmark performance across coding, reasoning, and multimodal tasks. By combining multimodality, efficiency, and agentic intelligence, MiMo-V2.5 advances the capabilities of open-source AI systems.

North Mini Code is Cohere’s first agentic coding model for developers and the inaugural member of its next generation of powerful models. Small, efficient, and open-source, it is built for the sovereign developer ecosystem and designed to deliver strong software development performance without requiring extensive hardware. North Mini Code is a mixture-of-experts model with 30B total parameters and 3B active parameters, giving developers access to agentic coding capabilities in a compact and efficient form. The model is optimized for code generation, agentic software engineering, and terminal tasks, with a 256K total context length and up to 64K maximum generation. It is built for real-world developer workflows, including understanding and orchestrating sub-agents, mapping system architecture, running code reviews, and supporting coding agents that need to reason through complex software tasks.