LightOn Releases Multilingual Long-Context Retrieval Models
antoine_chaffin · x · 2026-07-30
LightOn announced the release of its next-generation fully open-source models, mDenseOn and mLateOn, focusing on multilingual, long-context, and code retrieval. The company claims the models maintain the same openness while delivering frontier performance.
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