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- 2026
Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
arXiv
Kimi K3 is Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter open mixture-of-experts model with native vision and a one-million-token context, released with full weights. Its report describes the architecture, training and serving work behind it, and reports frontier-level results that still trail the strongest proprietary models.
- 2026
DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence
arXiv
A preview report on the DeepSeek-V4 series, describing a 1.6-trillion-parameter Pro model and a 284-billion-parameter Flash model, both with one-million-token context, plus the attention, connection and optimization changes that make that length affordable.
- 2026
Qwen3.5-Omni Technical Report
arXiv
The Qwen3.5-Omni Technical Report documents Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Omni, a hundreds-of-billions-parameter model that understands long audio and video and generates speech across 10 languages, reporting state-of-the-art results on 215 audio and audio-visual benchmarks.
- 2025
Kimi K2: Open Agentic Intelligence
arXiv
Kimi K2 is Moonshot AI's trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, pre-trained with the MuonClip optimizer and post-trained on large-scale agentic data plus reinforcement learning; the report reports state-of-the-art results among open-source non-thinking models and releases base and post-trained checkpoints.
- 2025
The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text
arXiv
An eight-terabyte collection of public domain and openly licensed text for pretraining language models, released together with two 7B-parameter models trained on it to show the data is enough.
- 2025
Qwen3 Technical Report
arXiv
The Qwen3 Technical Report presents Alibaba's Qwen3 family of dense and mixture-of-experts language models, which unify thinking and non-thinking modes, add a controllable thinking budget, and are released under the Apache 2.0 licence.
- 2025
Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-play Reasoning with Zero Data
arXiv
A 2025 paper proposing Absolute Zero, a reinforcement-learning paradigm in which one model writes its own code-reasoning tasks and then solves them, with a code executor as the only judge, reaching state of the art on coding and maths without external training data.
- 2025
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
arXiv
The DeepSeek-R1 report described how a reasoning model was trained largely with reinforcement learning, rewarding correct answers, and reached performance comparable to OpenAI's o1 on math, code and reasoning benchmarks. Its weights were released openly.
- 2024
DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
arXiv
A technical report from DeepSeek-AI on DeepSeek-V3, a mixture-of-experts language model with 671 billion total parameters, describing its architecture, training pipeline, and evaluations, including a full training run of 2.788 million H800 GPU hours.
- 2024
The Llama 3 Herd of Models
arXiv
Meta's 2024 paper describing Llama 3 as a family of foundation models — 8B, 70B and 405B parameters — trained on about 15 trillion tokens and reported to match leading models such as GPT-4 across a wide range of tasks.
- 2024
FlashAttention-3: Fast and Accurate Attention with Asynchrony and Low-precision
arXiv
FlashAttention-3 is an attention algorithm for NVIDIA Hopper (H100) GPUs that reaches up to 75% utilization in FP16 and close to 1.2 PFLOPs/s in FP8, using asynchronous execution and low-precision techniques.
- 2024
The FineWeb Datasets: Decanting the Web for the Finest Text Data at Scale
arXiv
FineWeb is a 15-trillion-token pretraining dataset built from 96 Common Crawl snapshots and released in 2024 with its curation code and ablation models; its educational subset, FineWeb-Edu, improves results on knowledge- and reasoning-heavy benchmarks.
- 2024
Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research
arXiv
Dolma is an openly released English corpus of three trillion tokens, built from web text, papers, code, books, social media and Wikipedia, with a paper documenting both the dataset and the pipeline used to curate it.
- 2024
Mixtral of Experts
arXiv
Mixtral 8x7B is a sparse mixture-of-experts language model from Mistral AI. A router sends each token to two of eight experts per layer, so the model holds 47B parameters but uses 13B during inference.
- 2023
Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
arXiv 2307.09288
A July 2023 paper from Meta led by Hugo Touvron that introduces and releases Llama 2, a family of pretrained and fine-tuned language models from 7 to 70 billion parameters, together with a detailed account of how the chat versions were tuned and made safer.
- 2023
FlashAttention-2: Faster Attention with Better Parallelism and Work Partitioning
arXiv
FlashAttention-2 is a 2023 revision of the FlashAttention attention kernel that reorganizes work across GPU thread blocks and warps, roughly doubling speed and reaching up to 73% of the A100's theoretical peak throughput.
- 2023
QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs
arXiv
QLoRA is a finetuning method that trains a 65B-parameter language model on a single 48GB GPU while matching full 16-bit finetuning quality, using 4-bit quantization, double quantization and paged optimizers.
- 2023
RedPajama: open reproduction of the LLaMA training dataset
Together AI blog / GitHub
RedPajama is an open-source project that began by reproducing the LLaMA training dataset, releasing a 1.2-trillion-token corpus as a clean-room, fully open implementation.
- 2023
LLaMA: Open and Efficient Foundation Language Models
arXiv
LLaMA is a family of foundation language models from 7B to 65B parameters, trained only on public datasets; its 13B model beat GPT-3 on most benchmarks, and all models were released to researchers.
- 2022
LAION-5B: An open large-scale dataset for training next generation image-text models
arXiv
LAION-5B is an openly available dataset of 5.85 billion CLIP-filtered image-text pairs, released so that researchers outside a handful of labs could study and reproduce large vision-language models.