dots3-note Preview — Xiaohongshu open weights, 280B/16B. IMO 42/42 is a harnessed branch.
First public dots3 checkpoint from dots studio (Xiaohongshu). Apache 2.0 weights on Hugging Face. The olympiad headline is a vendor claim about an internal proof harness — not a score of this file.
Category art. Not a photo of weights, IMO medals, or Vasilikos.
IMO 42/42 is a vendor claim about an internal branch plus a custom proof harness, not the published Hugging Face checkpoint. Licence on the preview weights is Apache 2.0. This is not a Cyprus live SKU. The Vasilikos campus is pre-construction. This page is not a securities offer. Executed offtake = 0.
What shipped
dots studio, the model lab inside Xiaohongshu, published dots3-note Preview as the first open-weight model in the dots3 family (note / jazz / aria). Vendor specs, matching the Hugging Face card:
- 280B total / 16B active multimodal mixture-of-experts
- 512K context
- Input: text, image, video, audio. Output: text only
- 256 routed experts + 1 shared, top-8; 1 dense + 45 MoE layers
- BF16 and native FP8 checkpoints
The vendor calls it a preview. Reinforcement learning is not finished. They flag hallucination, text/multimodal balance, and stability. Do not treat this as a production-complete frontier drop.
What IMO 42/42 actually is
On the English product page, dots studio writes that at IMO 2026 they built an internal harness around a branch of dots3-note Preview. The harness generated proofs recursively and used tools to evaluate them. They say that system earned a certified 42/42 and a gold medal.
That is a claim about a tool-using inference loop on an unpublished branch. It is not a leaderboard score of dots-studio/dots3-note-prev. Headlines that say “open-source model scored 42/42 at IMO” overstate the public file. AGICY has not independently verified the olympiad result.
Who had it first
Western RSS we already watch (WIRED, The Register, TechCrunch, Ars, The Verge) did not surface this in time. Primary signal was Hugging Face, GitHub, the vendor site, then Chinese press.
| When (UTC) | Who | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Aug 2026, 07:33 | Hugging Face dots-studio/dots3-note-prev | Weights createdAt |
| 12 Aug 2026, 07:55 | GitHub studio-dots-ai/dots3-note-prev | Code repo created |
| 14 Aug 2026 | studio.dots.ai + 36Kr | Vendor post and first press we found |
| 19 Aug 2026 | This AGICY note | Live Feed cron missed it. Hand-authored document, not an auto-digest. |
Where to get the weights
- Hugging Face: dots-studio/dots3-note-prev and the FP8 sibling
- ModelScope under the same names (vendor table)
- GitHub: studio-dots-ai/dots3-note-prev
Apache License 2.0 is on the weight repo. That permits commercial use of those files under the licence terms. It does not make AGICY a reseller, host, or offtake counterparty.
What this means for EU inference
Serving the public checkpoint is a self-host or third-party-API problem today. vLLM merged native Dots3 NOTE multimodal support (PR 51255) and publishes a recipe for the FP8 and BF16 IDs. OpenRouter lists a free third-party route. None of that is Copperway, and none of it is a Vasilikos hall.
As of 19 August 2026 the model is not on /leaderboard and not on Copperway. Successor-name watches stay on frontier model watch. If you need an EU-jurisdiction design for this class of MoE, contact us — that is a conversation, not a catalog SKU.
FAQ
Did an open-source model win IMO 2026 with 42/42?
No. dots studio says an internal harness around a branch of dots3-note Preview earned a certified 42/42 at IMO 2026. That result is a vendor claim about a tool-using proof loop, not a score of the Apache 2.0 Hugging Face checkpoint.
What actually shipped on Hugging Face?
dots3-note Preview (dots-studio/dots3-note-prev): a 280B total / 16B active multimodal MoE, 512K context, text-out, Apache 2.0. Inputs are text, image, video, and audio. The repo createdAt is 9 August 2026 UTC. An FP8 sibling exists. The vendor calls it a preview: RL is unfinished.
Does AGICY run dots3-note on Copperway or at Vasilikos?
No. It is not on the Copperway catalog as of 19 August 2026. The Vasilikos campus is pre-construction. This page is a research note, not a live SKU, offtake, or securities offer.
How can an EU team serve it?
Self-host the Hugging Face / ModelScope weights. vLLM merged native Dots3 NOTE support (PR 51255) and publishes a recipe. OpenRouter lists a third-party free route. None of those paths is AGICY inference.
Need EU inference design for open-weight MoE?
AGICY does not host dots3-note today. Contact is the right door for a planned sovereign path — campus pre-construction, not a live hall.
Contact usGPU leasing, rent, buy, or colocation
Search intent we actually fulfil on /leasing: GPU leasing, rent GPU server, buy AI accelerator (client-site finance under T&Cs), or AI colocation / GPU colo — also typed as collocation. Planned Cyprus campus; not a live hall.
dots3-note Preview is not an AGICY catalog SKU and is not served on Copperway. GPU leasing / colo language below is the planned campus product, pre-construction — not a claim that we run this model.
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Sources
- dots studio — dots3-note Preview (EN) — Vendor post. IMO 42/42 is described as an internal harness on a branch.
- Hugging Face — dots-studio/dots3-note-prev — Weights createdAt 2026-08-09T07:33:17Z. Apache 2.0.
- GitHub — studio-dots-ai/dots3-note-prev — Code repo created 2026-08-12T07:55:11Z.
- 36Kr — first English press we found — 14 August 2026 aggregator. Headline overstates IMO vs the public checkpoint.
- vLLM PR 51255 — native Dots3 NOTE — Merged. Community serving, not AGICY.
- vLLM recipe — dots-studio/dots3-note-prev
- OpenRouter — dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free — Third-party hosted route (AtlasCloud). Not Copperway.
External research and vendor claims. Not AGICY offtake, CapEx, or a live campus claim. The invest page is not a securities offer.