Nous Research has released NousCoder-14B, a new open-source AI model specifically designed for code generation and understanding. The 14-billion-parameter model is positioned as a strong competitor to other coding assistants, arriving shortly after Anthropic’s Claude Code announcement. It is built on the DeepSeek-Coder-V2 architecture and trained on a large, high-quality dataset of code from multiple programming languages. The model’s performance is reported to be competitive with or exceed that of other leading models in its class on standard coding benchmarks. As an open-source release, it provides developers and researchers with a freely accessible alternative to proprietary coding assistants. The full article can be found at: https://venturebeat.com/technology/nous-researchs-nouscoder-14b-is-an-open-source-coding-model-landing-right-in