SMRTR AIApr 7, 2026TechCrunch

I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee

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Tiny 26-person startup Arcee released Trinity Large Thinking, a 400-billion parameter open source AI model built on just $20 million, aiming to provide Western companies an alternative to Chinese AI models. The reasoning model offers comparable performance to other top open source competitors while avoiding the risks of foreign government control and the unpredictable pricing changes from major closed-source providers like Anthropic and OpenAI.

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