Re:Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of...
by ipieter on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:41AM
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I only see an edit to the readme (13h ago) and removal of the weights, so the repo is now empty.
I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but we've seen this before: a model gets released that is supposedly state-of-the-art, yet seems to be a an other repackaged model without any training. Reflection 70B was the most similar example, all they now need is an api that rewrites "Claude" to "Rio".
I am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, but we've seen this before: a model gets released that is supposedly state-of-the-art, yet seems to be a an other repackaged model without any training. Reflection 70B was the most similar example, all they now need is an api that rewrites "Claude" to "Rio".