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SITUATION DETECTED: The city of Rio de Janerio has post-trained a model.

SemiAnalysis Twitter · SemiAnalysis (@SemiAnalysis_) · 2026-06-13

The city of Rio de Janeiro has released Rio 3.5 Open 397B, a post-trained open-source model built on Qwen 7B/2 that introduces a SwiReasoning framework dynamically switching between chain-of-thought and latent-space reasoning.

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Claims

  • The city of Rio de Janeiro has independently post-trained and released a large language model.
  • Rio 3.5 Open 397B is based on the Qwen 7/2 base model.
  • The model introduces a SwiReasoning framework that dynamically alternates between standard chain-of-thought and latent-space reasoning.
  • A city government producing a post-trained frontier-scale model represents an unusual new actor in the AI development landscape.

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SITUATION DETECTED: The city of Rio de Janerio has post-trained a model.
Rio 3.5 Open 397B adds SwiReasoning on top of the base Qwen model — a framework that dynamically switches between standard chain-of-thought and latent-space reasoning, guided by [further context cut off].