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Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model


prefeitura-rio/Rio-3.5-Open-397B is presented as an original 397B model trained by IplanRIO. It is not. Its weights are a direct element-wise merge of our model, Nex, with the official Qwen3.5-397B...

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