Suspected Frontier Model Architecture: No RoPE and Hybrid Attention
nrehiew_ · x · 2026-07-16
The post analyzes the architectural details of a suspected frontier model. Regarding the attention mechanism: it adopts a sliding window and uses 1D convolution on KV and residual connections; RoPE is completely abandoned in favor of distance-based relative position bias. On the MoE side: total parameters are 975B with 41B active, trained on 45T multimodal tokens; it uses an architecture similar to DeepSeek v3 but features 6 routed experts and 2 shared experts (usually 1 or 0), thereby increasing the sparsity rate.
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