LLMs & Models2 min read
Competitive programming
NousCoder-14B just opened the coding RL black box that OpenAI and DeepMind keep locked
Nous Research drops NousCoder-14B, a 14B competitive programming model with a fully open RL pipeline. The 68% Codeforces solve rate is notable, but the real story is that anyone can now replicate the stack.
2026-07-16