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title: "Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/meet-smaug-72b-the-new-king-of-open-source-ai-e5pxnhiaa
source_url: https://venturebeat.com/ai/meet-smaug-72b-the-new-king-of-open-source-ai/
type: article
source: "Venture Beat"
published: 2024-02-07T02:41:38.264Z
updated: 2026-04-30T02:19:04.540Z
tags: ["ai", "automation", "big-data", "business", "data-management", "data-science", "nlp", "open-source", "qwen"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Meet ‘Smaug-72B’: The new king of open-source AI

**[Venture Beat](https://daily.dev/sources/venturebeat)** · 5 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

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 excels in reasoning and math tasks, and its release signifies the potential of open-source AI to rival big tech companies. Other open-source language models like Qwen 1.5 have also made significant advancements. Abacus AI and Qwen plan to submit their models to benchmark evaluations and have future projects in the works.

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