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Six base checkpoints are more interesting than one finished endpoint

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Most model releases give you one endpoint and leave the training path opaque. This release exposes a two-by-three map instead: tiny and flash, each with pretrained, mid-trained, and WSM-merged checkpoints. That is the interesting part of the Ling-3.0 base model release. The pretrained checkpoint pr…

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  1. 2026-08-24 12:50 · r/LocalLLM
    Six base checkpoints are more interesting than one finished endpoint

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