Nous Research has released NousCoder-14B, a new open-source coding model with 14 billion parameters. The model is designed to compete with proprietary alternatives like Claude Code and is fine-tuned from CodeLlama-13B using a dataset of 1.5 million code samples. It reportedly performs well on benchmarks like HumanEval, achieving a 70.7% pass rate, and is intended to provide developers with a powerful, freely available tool for code generation and assistance. The release comes at a time when AI coding assistants are gaining significant traction in the developer community. Read the full article at: https://venturebeat.com/technology/nous-researchs-nouscoder-14b-is-an-open-source-coding-model-landing-right-in