Multiverse Computing releases Quasar 438B, Europe's highest-scoring AI model
The 400B-parameter reasoning model scores 43 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, outpacing rivals while maintaining fast response times.
What to know
- Quasar 438B scores 43 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the highest score of any European model, outpacing Mistral Medium 3.5 (30) and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra (38).
- The model returns 500-token responses in 15.3 seconds—faster than most competitors despite its reasoning capability—with particular strength in long-context reasoning (75.0 on AA-LCR) and agentic terminal work.
- Quasar is available through the CompactifAI API for enterprise teams testing 400B-parameter reasoning models without infrastructure setup.
“Against Mistral Medium 3.5 the comparison runs one way on both axes: Quasar scores higher (43 against 30) and answers faster (15.3s against 18.8s).”
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- Sep 3
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You'd need to compare by volume. And when you do that - unfortunately - NV is by far the largest supplier. 'Most DCs' are effectively single-supplier. And I wish it weren't so. This is the hard one to crack, NV needs credible competition. AMD and Intel are the only two majors that potentially could do this but they're both way behind where they…
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Care to comment on this model from a quite serious company being labeled as derived from GLM?Also, do you have a source for: "99% certainly european chips, almost certainly EIC-funded. (Eg. Hailo, Axelera, ..)"For Hailo, the best I can find is https://hailo.ai/products/ai-accelerators/hailo-10h-m-2-ai-a...Which states that this is a 40 TOPS int4…
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It will be more like India under the East India Company. European economies will pay a tax to America or China for AI and robotics technology unavailable at home. Remember, the British didn’t “loot” India in the sense of walking out the door with rupees. They halted India’s economic progress by preventing access to revolutionary industrial…
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Except that no, it doesn't churn "clones"; MVC is quite a serious company and working on far more interesting stuff than whatever shit the SaaS or ads company you're statistically likely working at is.EIC churns out DeepTech, invests 2.5M nondilutive with funding horizons of 10+ years and larger equity-based programmes too. Multiverse is a quantum…
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I don't remember that being there, but you know how memory can be. I checked the Wayback Machine and it has a snapshot of the page that does not mention it. The snapshot is from September 1st, not from yesterday, so perhaps they changed it before this announcement and my comment was made. But I personally don't think so.
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This is an oft-expressed refrain. But there are good reasons to not want to use Chinese models (or models from any adversary for that matter).1. They may be trained, in theory, to inject subtle back-doors into certain kinds of generated code.2. They may be also trained to include back-doors when deployed in public-facing services where user can…
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> I'm not sure why it wouldn't make sense for some of these talented engineers to work for an indigenous tech company.India doesn't have the same structure, existence and prevalence of VCs with large pools of available seed round and series A money that are necessary for a start-up to acquire enough funds to realistically train a model…
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Isn't this standard in Europe? There exists a layer of well-connected and impenetrable managerial class, shielded by a glass ceiling. The entire company is BS, and they use some folks with clout and credentials to access grants and handouts (or whatever inscrutable financial reasons). They often sell products to each others' companies or big Euro…
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It's definitely at the model level. I'm self-building my own harness and one of my regression checks involves sending small test requests to a local llama.cpp instance of (Alibaba's (from Hangzhou)) Qwen. "What is the capital of...?" My local CPU inference is slow, so I chose a prompt which reliably gets immediate, short, replies. "Paris."…
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I wouldn't trust a single word coming out of an AfD reps mouth. Here's some choice quotes from AfD politicians, translated to English:"We must proceed completely peacefully and deliberately, adapt if necessary and butter up the opponent [literally: smear honey on their mouths], but when we are finally ready, we will put them all against the wall…
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>what else is the AI supposed to reply here?It should reply exactly what you just wrote before: "The EU comission is not directly elected", and not trigger a security violation as if the person asked the AI to provide instructions on building a pipe bomb.There's nothing illegal in asking "how do we get rid of X politician", but since the EU treats…
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The EU comission is not directly elected, what else is the AI supposed to reply here?Comparisons between Chinese and western media control/censorship always strike me as somewhat ridiculous; This is like comparing Guantanamo Bay with the Soviet Gulag System: Yes both of those are unethical, but there's a factor of 1000 difference in scale.Case in…
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I might be misreading this. But they seem to heavily imply that they trained this model. Or at least want to give off the impression that that is the case. Otherwise the "Europe's Leading Model" line doesn't make much sense.Their bread and butter is to remove parameters from models [1] and I think this is GLM 5.2 with parameters removed. Its…
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Chinese ML researchers primarily publish in English and only secondarily in Chinese. For example, take the Qwen-3.8-Next blog post https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next (which apparently doesn't include the language choice in the URL, so you'll need to switch to the 简体中文 translation manually). Even in the Chinese version, the "Hugging Face"…
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The company sounds like a bunch of hot air to me. From their about page:> At the heart of Multiverse's platform is CompactifAI, a compression technology that applies tensor networks, a mathematical framework from quantum physics, to the problem of AI model compression. This application was pioneered by co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer Dr…
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It seems that Mistral is moving in that direction anyway:"Our customers particularly value us for pioneering open models. Open weights give them what mission-critical work demands: the ability to see inside a model, adapt it, and retain the intelligence they build with it. This is why we are enthusiastic contributors to the Open Secure AI Alliance…
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When the weights are closed I don't believe any benchmark.I just got Qwen3.8-27B to score extra 10% on SWE Pro by adding a proxy in front of it that has few simple "harness like features": - when the model gets stuck it tells it to "go on" - when it sends no output, malformed json, slips to wrong tool use format, etc it asks it to "try again…
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>For instance, I heard one of the Chinese models has some interesting "history" "facts" built into itEU models will also have such guard rails built in to "protect" the EU population from "misinformation" and uncomfortable facts and the EU elite don't want publicly known/discussed.Like I saw a post from German EU MEP where they asked the internal…
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As a non-European, I care. I definitely want choice in this matter, as too many things can be baked into models that we can't really know until it comes up.For instance, I heard one of the Chinese models has some interesting "history" "facts" built into it. That's major, and can influence a lot more than just asking it for that particular history…
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I hope you're aware that it's likley in the future open weight models will output tokens/commands that aren't in your interest. It could be that models are trained with spionage in mind and models could only target specific input token patterns, time zones, ip addresses, names etc... You will be able to see the output tokens but things will become…
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There is no unideological. There is no view from nowhere, what you perceive as unideological is precisely the reflection of your own ideology. The "unbiased" is just whatever matches your own bias.To quote Zizek:> I already am eating from the trashcan all the time. The name of this trashcan is ideology. The material force of ideology - makes me…
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I wish for this company to have great models. I am glad to see such good scores.I see they have a HuggingFace account[0] and they fine-tuned GPT-OSS, Nemotron, and Qwen, in the past under new names.There are some things about it that make me worry though.• They don't indicate the active parameter count, or indicate whether they pretrained the…
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That's a very limiting view of things. A model, even an open weight one, is never neutral, it is an encoding of a way of viewing the world.What kind of "alignment" are AI labs optimizing for? Ideological alignment is the full term, self-censored into something more technological-sounding.Every model has people behind it rating what it should and…
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I do not want open weight models from China to be the only viable locally hosted things (deepseek v4 flash 0731 Q8, qwen 3.8-flash-next Q8, GLM-5.3-Flash) in the under 200GB RAM class.I want to see things like Mistral and Laguna (non-CN) succeed. I have spent about a week using Laguna S 2.1 as a test and while I wasn't blown away by its…