Spanish startup Multiverse launches HyperNova 60B model
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has released HyperNova 60B, a free, compressed AI model that is roughly half the size of OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b.
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Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has released HyperNova 60B, a free, compressed AI model that is roughly half the size of OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b.
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