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Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model
Quasar 438B, a 400 billion-parameter reasoning model supporting English and Spanish, achieves a 43 score on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1—outperforming European rivals Mistral Medium 3.5 (30) and NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra (38) while delivering 500 tokens in 15.3 seconds. It excels in long-context reasoning (AA-LCR 75.0) and terminal-bench tasks (69.3), positioning it for enterprise agents, coding assistants, and workflow automation via the CompactifAI API.