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The Soofi S 30B-A3B is a sovereign, open-source Mixture-of-Experts foundation model for German and English, pretrained on 27 trillion tokens. It matches dense 14-27B models on benchmarks while offering superior long-context throughput and outperforms all European open baselines.

SoofiS30B-A3B is a sovereign, open-source Mixture-of-Experts hybrid Mamba Transformer foundation model for German and English, activating only 3B of 30B parameters per token and achieving strong benchmark performance.

The author shares their experience swapping the TTS in their voice agent to a custom model (Banter 1) designed for bilingual Arabic-English conversations, which significantly reduced perceived lag.

A guide comparing the best local LLMs for English story summarization, offering recommendations based on performance and accessibility.

Cohere releases an open-source 2B parameter Arabic ASR model optimized for Arabic dialect performance and Arabic-English code-switching, based on the Conformer encoder-decoder architecture.

Dango is a 1.8B-parameter LLM trained strictly on Japanese (L1) then fine-tuned on English (L2) to study language transfer effects in second language acquisition. The model filters English contamination from the pretraining corpus and shows human-like L2 production patterns.

Inflect-Nano-v1 is a tiny English text-to-speech model with 4.63M total inference parameters, including its vocoder, designed for local, efficient speech synthesis experiments.

BloomBench is a cognitively grounded bilingual (English-Arabic) multimodal benchmark for Vision-Language Models, systematically evaluating six cognitive levels based on Bloom's Taxonomy. Experiments reveal significant cognitive asymmetries and cross-lingual performance gaps in current models.