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Rio de Janeiro releases open-source Rio-3.5-Open-397B model

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A new open-source model named Rio-3.5-Open-397B has been released on Hugging Face. Developed by the city government of Rio de Janeiro, this model is a fine-tune of Qwen and is reported to perform comparably to Qwen 3.7 Plus. The developer disclosed their affiliation with the city government, where they work as a researcher. AI

IMPACT Provides a new open-source option for researchers and developers, potentially fostering further innovation in fine-tuning and model development.

RANK_REASON Release of a fine-tuned model on Hugging Face, not from a frontier lab. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Rio de Janeiro releases open-source Rio-3.5-Open-397B model

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/krzonkalla ·

    New model on huggingface

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