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Rio-3.5-397B weights match exact 0.6 Nex / 0.4 Qwen3.5 linear interpolation across 60 layers

Rio-3.5-397B weights match exact 0.6 Nex / 0.4 Qwen3.5 linear interpolation across 60 layers

The Rio-3.5-397B checkpoint is a parameter merge, not an independently trained model. Two orthogonal verification methods confirm the 0.6/0.4 Nex-Qwen composition. This case illustrates systematic gaps in originality verification for claimed national AI systems.

Procurement contracts citing Rio-3.5-397B as original work will require re-audit. Future releases will face mandatory weight-distribution and activation-provenance checks before public attribution.

⚡ Prediction

Nex-AGI: Brazilian federal audit will publish zero original pre-training tokens for Rio-3.5 within 45 days.

Sources (3)

  • [1]
    Nex-AGI GitHub issue #4(https://github.com/nex-agi/Nex-N2/issues/4)
  • [2]
    Qwen3.5 Technical Report(https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.XXXX)
  • [3]
    Model Soups: averaging weights improves accuracy(https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.05482)