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Yandex open-sourced an 80B model trained from scratch: what's inside and where it wins

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Yandex just open-sourced a language model it trained entirely from scratch — no borrowed weights, no initialization from Qwen or Llama. It's called AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base , it's on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0, and it's a surprisingly interesting release if you care about MoE architecture…

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  1. 2026-09-21 08:45 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Yandex open-sourced an 80B model trained from scratch: what's inside and where it wins

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