Arcee AI's 26-Person Team Builds a 400B-Parameter Open-Source Model Rivaling Claude at 96% Lower Cost - April 8, 2026

Arcee AI's 26-Person Team Builds a 400B-Parameter Open-Source Model Rivaling Claude at 96% Lower Cost - April 8, 2026 A tiny 26-person U.S. startup called Arcee AI has built Trinity Large Thinking, a 400-billion-parameter open-source language model that scores within striking distance of Claude Opus on agentic benchmarks — all for just $20 million in training costs and released under Apache 2.0 licensing. Hosted by Chris and Laura. The DX Today Podcast brings you daily deep dives into the ...