It's been a crazy year for me! This year I launched VANTA Research as a solo operator and managed to push out 14 original open source finetunes and 5 datasets in the span of about 4 months, completely on my own.
The reception has been much higher than I ever anticipated and sincerely appreciate everyone that's checked out my work thus far.
The good news is, I'm just getting started! In 2026 you can expect even more original models from VANTA Research, more open source datasets, and maybe some other cool things as well? 👀
2026 is gonna be big for AI in general, and I can't wait to experience it with all of you!
Atom-27B has arrived! This model is the largest open-weight model so far from VANTA Research, and is our 4th model in Project Atom - an effort to scale our collaborative Atom persona from 4B-400B+
Atom-27B is based on Google's Gemma 3 27B architecture, and embodies the familiar friendly, warm, and curious persona that appeared in previous releases.
Atom is designed to think WITH you, not FOR you - marking VANTA Research's commitment to building frontier collaborative models.