--- title: Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI | daily.dev description: Smaug-72B, an open-source language model developed by Abacus AI, has claimed the top spot in the rankings, outperforming models from OpenAI and Mistral. It... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/meet-smaug-72b-the-new-king-of-open-source-ai-e5pxnhiaa twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI | daily.dev og:description: Smaug-72B, an open-source language model developed by Abacus AI, has claimed the top spot in the rankings, outperforming models from OpenAI and Mistral. 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