Nous Research has released NousCoder-14B, a new open-source coding model with 14 billion parameters. The model is designed to assist with code generation, explanation, and debugging, positioning itself as an alternative to proprietary models like Anthropic’s Claude Code. It was trained on a diverse dataset of code from multiple programming languages and natural language instructions. The release comes amid growing competition in the AI coding assistant space, where open-source models aim to provide transparency and customization options that closed-source models do not. Performance benchmarks suggest it is competitive with other models of similar size. The full article is available at: https://venturebeat.com/technology/nous-researchs-nouscoder-14b-is-an-open-source-coding-model-landing-right-in