I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee

What Happened

Arcee, a 26-person U.S. startup, released Trinity Large Thinking, an open-weight reasoning model built on a $20 million budget. CEO Mark McQuade claims it's the most capable open-weight model from a non-Chinese company. The model performs comparably to other top open-source options but trails Meta's Llama 4. Arcee uses Apache 2.0 licensing, allowing companies to download, customize, and deploy models locally without vendor lock-in constraints.

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