Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, a 14.8B open DNA model
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Carbon-X is a decoder-only model built on Qwen3-14B that reads raw DNA in a chat and answers in English, scoring 66.7% average across five DNA benchmarks (self-reported). Hugging Face says it comes within a point of GPT-6.1 Sol at roughly 1,000x lower inference cost.
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