Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, a 14B model for chatting with DNA
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Carbon-X, built with Zhongguancun Academy and University of Naples Federico II, beats every open language model tested on DNA benchmarks and lands within a point of GPT-6.1 Sol at over 1,000x lower inference cost. It was mid-trained on 300B tokens and runs locally on a laptop.
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