Model Merging on NV Trendshttps://blogs.nvtrends.com/tags/model-merging/Recent content in Model Merging on NV TrendsHugoen-usSun, 27 Sep 2026 03:34:55 +0000Rio's Homegrown AI Exposed as Merged Modelhttps://blogs.nvtrends.com/posts/2026/rio-de-janeiro-homegrown-llm-merged-model/Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:34:27 +0000https://blogs.nvtrends.com/posts/2026/rio-de-janeiro-homegrown-llm-merged-model/<p>Rio de Janeiro&rsquo;s proudly announced &ldquo;homegrown&rdquo; municipal artificial intelligence was exposed as a merged model after independent machine learning researchers proved its underlying weights were mathematically blended from existing open-source models rather than trained independently on proprietary local data.</p>