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Kakao open-sources Kanana Nano 2.1B

Published the Kanana technical report and open-sourced Kanana Nano 2.1B (base, instruct, embedding) for research use under CC BY-NC 4.0

Why it matters

The first open weights in the Kanana line, released alongside a report on training the 2.1B–32.5B Kanana lineup

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialtech.kakao.comhttps://tech.kakao.com/posts/689

Added in Week 41, 2026 · See that week

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