Nous Research has released NousCoder-14B, a new open-source coding model designed to compete with proprietary alternatives like Anthropic’s Claude Code. The 14-billion-parameter model is built on the DeepSeek-Coder architecture and fine-tuned on a large dataset of code. It aims to provide strong performance in code generation, completion, and explanation tasks while remaining freely accessible to developers and researchers. The release comes amid growing industry focus on specialized AI coding assistants. The model’s benchmarks suggest it performs competitively with other models of similar size, offering a capable open-source option for code-related AI applications. Read the full article at: https://venturebeat.com/technology/nous-researchs-nouscoder-14b-is-an-open-source-coding-model-landing-right-in