Upstage releases Solar Open 2, a 250B-A15B open-weight model

The 250B-A15B model uses a hybrid-attention MoE with linear attention for efficient inference. Upstage targets agentic use cases: office productivity, document-intensive work, and coding. Early benchmarks place it on par with DeepSeek V4 Flash.
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