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One of my favorite small local coding models got faster.

One of my favorite small local coding models got faster. JetBrains released a new MTP head for Mellum2.1 Thinking. And…

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One of my favorite small local coding models got faster. JetBrains released a new MTP head for Mellum2.1 Thinking. And this model already surprised me because it beat Qwen in my testing. Mellum2.1 ... 🧠 12B total / 2.5B active 📚 131K context 💾 Q4_K_M + MTP → ~8.3GB 🔓 Apache 2.0 💻 coding + tools + repo agents Take note that JetBrains didn't replace the model. The underlying Mellum2.1 weights are the same. They added a small MTP head that tries to predict several future tokens ahead. The main model verifies them. JetBrains says ⚡ 1.4–1.8× faster decoding 🎯 ~90% draft-token acceptance

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