Nous Research Releases Open-Source Coding Model NousCoder-14B, Trained in Four Days

Jul 11, 2026

Nous Research has released NousCoder-14B, an open-source coding model that achieves 67.87% accuracy on LiveCodeBench v6, representing a 7.08 percentage point improvement over its base model, Qwen3-14B. The model was trained in just four days using 48 Nvidia B200 GPUs, and its release comes amid heightened competition in the AI coding assistant space, particularly following the attention garnered by Anthropic's Claude Code.

Why it matters: The release highlights the rapid progress and competitiveness of open-source models in the evolving AI coding assistant market.

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