January 8, 2026

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

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Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems — trained in just four da...