Yandex Releases 80B AliceAI Foundation Model

Yandex released AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base, a Russian-developed competitor to Qwen 35B and DeepSeek V4 Flash. It uses a fully custom architecture rather than a Qwen3 finetune, has not been post-trained, and currently lacks llama.cpp support.

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