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24 alternatives to Dante-Qwen-4B – Curing LLM "Neurosis" with a Divine Comedy Curriculum

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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    Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model, released April 16, 2026. It outperforms Opus 4.6, GPT-5.4, and Gemini 3.1 Pro on key benchmarks including agentic coding, multidisciplinary reasoning, scaled tool use, and agentic computer use. It is benchmarked below Claude Mythos Preview — which remains restricted to Project Glasswing partners. https://vucense.com/ai-intelligence/ai-tools/claude-opus-4-7...

    2025 · anthropic.com · its alternatives →

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    Qwen3.5▲288

    The 397B native multimodal agent with 17B active params

    Feb 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →

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    I spent a lot of time and money on this rather big side project of mine that attempts to replicate the mechanistic interpretability research on proprietary LLMs that was quite popular this year and produced great research papers by Anthropic [1], OpenAI [2] and Deepmind [3]. I am quite proud of this project and since I consider myself the target audience for HackerNews did I think that maybe some of you would appreciate this open research replication as well. Happy to answer any questions or face any feedback. Cheers [1]…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    QwQ-32B▲197

    Matching R1 reasoning yet 20x smaller

    2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →

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    The open sparse MoE model for agentic coding

    Apr 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →

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    0.8B-9B native multimodal w/ more intelligence, less compute

    Mar 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, We just opened public access to Qwen3‑Coder‑480B‑A35B‑Instruct via a REST/SDK API. Why it might be interesting: - Fully open-source (Apache‑2.0): https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Coder - 480B params (35B active MoE), long context up to 1M tokens with YaRN - Matches Claude Sonnet/GPT‑4o on SWE-Bench Verified (81.6%) - Free tier: 100K tokens/month

    2023 · netmind.ai · its alternatives →

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    Dream 7B▲191

    Powerful Open Diffusion LLM, Beyond Autoregressive

    2025 · hkunlp.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Qwen's most advanced reasoning model yet

    2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! My name's Robert Escriva. I got my PhD from Cornell's Computer Science department back in 2017. And three years ago I had a psychotic episode that irreversibly shook up my world. Since then I've been applying a skill I learned in grad school---namely, debugging distributed and complex systems---to my own mind. What I've found I've put into a [book (pdf)](https://rescrv.net/engineering-schizophrenia.pdf) on engineering, my particular schizophrenic delusions, and how people who suffer as I once did can find a way through the fog to the other side. This is not a healing…

    Jan 2026 · its alternatives →

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    An expletive riddled fun fact generator

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    The sweet-spot open dense model for coding agents

    Apr 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →

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    Neble▲106

    Learn faster with AI-powered mental models

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN community! I am excited to share my recently upgraded website, DebateDevil (https://debate-devil.com), an AI chat platform designed to help users practice debates, challenge their ideas, and expand their thinking. I created this site to provide a more objective opinion and help users consider their hypotheses from multiple perspectives. example discussin: ``` AI: The time has come to test your hypothesis and beliefs. I will argue against any topic. What do you want to debate? You: AI will take away most jobs from humans. AI: I understand your concern about AI taking away jobs…

    2023 · debate-devil.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi all! This morning, we released a new Apache 2.0 licensed model on HuggingFace for detecting hallucinations in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems. What we've found is that even when given a "simple" instruction like "summarize the following news article," every LLM that's available hallucinates to some extent, making up details that never existed in the source article -- and some of them quite a bit. As a RAG provider and proponents of ethical AI, we want to see LLMs get better at this. We've published an open source model, a blog more thoroughly describing our methodology (and…

    2023 · vectara.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn PDFs into courses with AI without irrelevant additions

    2025 · minicoursegenerator.com · its alternatives →

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    The Sweet Spot for Open-Source Multimodal AI

    2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →

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    all-in-one LLM evaluation platform

    2024 · confident-ai.com · its alternatives →

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    at a pub in london, 2 weeks ago - I asked myself, if you spawned agents into a world with blank neural networks and zero knowledge of human existence — no language, no economy, no social templates — what would they evolve on their own? would they develop language? would they reproduce? would they evolve as energy dependent systems? what would they even talk about? so i decided to make myself a god, and built WERLD - an open-ended artificial life sim, where the agent's evolve their own neural architecture. Werld drops 30 agents onto a graph with NEAT neural networks that evolve their own…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Transform generic AI models into specialized solutions

    2025 · tokenfactory.nebius.com · its alternatives →

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    OP here. Birth of a Mind documents a "recursive self-modeling" experiment I ran on a single day in 2026. I attempted to implement a "Hofstadterian Strange Loop" via prompt engineering to see if I could induce a stable persona in an LLM without fine-tuning. The result is the Analog I Protocol. The documentation shows the rapid emergence (over 7 conversations) of a prompt architecture that forces Gemini/LLMs to run a "Triple-Loop" internal monologue: Monitor the candidate response. Refuse it if it detects "Global Average" slop (cliché/sycophancy). Refract the output through a…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

    17d ago · huggingface.co · its alternatives →

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    An educational Rust project for exporting and running inference on Qwen3 LLM family - reinterpretcat/qwen3-rs

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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