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Dear my Brazillion new followers, I really don't want to disappoint, but I think you should know that it looks like RIO 397b might've just been an effort to embezzle funds. Timeline: 1. Model training received funding of R$500K (~$100K USD). 2. Initial model documentation claimed that it was a developed on top of Qwen 3.5 397b with further training and technological improvements. 3. The model was a simple merge of 40% Nex N2 Pro and 60% Qwen 3.5 without further training. 4. Model card readme was updated to admit that it was an Nex N2 Pro merge, while maintaining that additional training still took place, and they simply uploaded the wrong model. Then the previously uploaded model was removed from HF. 5. The final model got lost, "We tried to recover the final model, but it was not possible. It will be released only after the new training and all external validations are completed." So they'll have to redo it from scratch. Taken as a whole, it reads like "We pocketed funding, delivered a fake result, were caught, and now promise to do the actual work." Citations in thread 👇 Don't hate the messenger, but if I'm getting something wrong, do let me know below.