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JetBrains releases Mellum2.1 open mixture of experts model for coding agents

JetBrains has launched Mellum2.1, an open 12 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model designed to power software development agents.

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JetBrains has released Mellum2.1, an open mixture-of-experts model designed for coding agents, MarkTechPost and Tech Insider reported. The model is released under an Apache 2.0 open-source licence and contains 12 billion total parameters, with 2.5 billion active parameters during inference. [1][2]

According to MarkTechPost, JetBrains used reinforcement learning inside real software repositories during training. This training approach improved the performance of the model on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark, raising its score from 2.0 percent to 47.0 percent. [1]

AI-assisted software development uses large language models and software agents to help programmers write source code, debug, test, and generate documentation. The approach can increase the speed of software delivery, though it carries risks regarding code quality. [4]

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In short

  • JetBrains released Mellum2.1 under an Apache 2.0 open licence.
  • Mellum2.1 features 12 billion total parameters with 2.5 billion active parameters.
  • Reinforcement learning in real repositories raised its SWE-bench Verified score to 47.0.

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  1. [1]JetBrains Releases Mellum2.1: A 12B MoE Open Model for Coding AgentsMarkTechPost, 9h ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]JetBrains Mellum 2.1: 12B MoE Model Targets Coding Agents [2026]https://tech-insider.org/, 6h ago

Background

  1. [3]Xiaomi MiMo on Wikipedia
  2. [4]AI-assisted software development on Wikipedia

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 4 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

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