Yandex presents AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base as a new base-model release, which a community report describes as custom-built rather than a Qwen fine-tune, potentially expanding open-model development options while post-training and llama.cpp support remain absent.
state: resolvedheat: lowuncertainty: lownovelscott: lowopen-models model-architecture local-inferenceYandex
What is this?
Yandex has published a Hugging Face repository for AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base, a base language model; Alexander Mazitov also reports its release and says he built and trained its pretraining architecture in H1 2026. The case includes a quoted Yandex Habr announcement of open weights under Apache 2.0, but the supplied web snippets do not independently confirm that license, the community claim that it is not a Qwen fine-tune, or the reported absence of post-training and llama.cpp support. The repository snippet lists inference-library instructions, not demonstrated compatibility or performance; the separate AliceAI-T5-35B-A0.6B search model should not be conflated with this release.
Why it matters to Scott
The release is adjacent to Scott’s gamepc local-serving work, but the supplied evidence establishes neither compatibility with his runtimes nor a performance or resource advantage that would change what he builds; the custom-architecture and missing-support claims remain unconfirmed. No supplied hit establishes convergence with a Scott position or prior radar tracking of this specific release.
radar:concept.open-modelsradar:concept.local-inference
queries asked of Scott's wikis
- open weights licensing model sovereignty provider independence
- base model post-training fine-tuning agent readiness
- local inference llama.cpp architecture compatibility
- sparse model inference economics memory requirements
- model evaluation alternative backends coding agent harnesses
Measured heat
no measured readings yet — the hourly heat pass fills this in
How the heat travelled
Evidence (2) — ⭐ canonical anchor
Interpretation history
2026-09-25T02:27:50Z
The episode closed without follow-through: the release drew a single-subreddit discussion cycle (peak ~71 pts/h, now 0.0 pts/h and 0th peer percentile) whose verdict was 'promising from-scratch base, unusable until post-trained', and no post-trained variant, llama.cpp/backend support, or independent verification of the custom-architecture or Apache-2.0 claims arrived within the window. The magnitude-valve flag reflects a historical peak, not live spread — the 'several platforms' are one announcement plus one discussion thread of it.
2026-09-21T20:31:13Z
grounded: novel/low — The release is adjacent to Scott’s gamepc local-serving work, but the supplied evidence establishes neither compatibility with his runtimes nor a performance or
2026-09-21T20:26:04Z
origin walked (codex/luna, conf 0.98): anchor reddit.post.1wmmnrt -> echo.blog.87867aeb18 by Yandex
2026-09-21T20:24:40Z
case created — A named model repository supports a bounded release case, but comparative capability and deployment readiness are not established.
Decision trace
- 09-25 12:27resolveThe episode closed without follow-through: the release drew a single-subreddit discussion cycle (peak ~71 pts/h, now 0.0 pts/h and 0th peer percentile) whose verdict was 'promising from-scratch b
- 09-23 10:21sensor_dirtyvelocity_spike
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- 09-22 18:21sensor_dirtyvelocity_spike
- 09-22 17:21sensor_dirtycomment_update
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- 09-22 06:31groundThe release is adjacent to Scott’s gamepc local-serving work, but the supplied evidence establishes neither compatibility with his runtimes nor a performance or resource advantage that would change wh
- 09-22 06:26promote_anchororigin walk conf 0.98
- 09-22 06:24createA named model repository supports a bounded release case, but comparative capability and deployment readiness are not established.