Introducing Mellum2: A 12B Mixture-of-Experts Model by JetBrains
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
mixture-of-experts — A model built from many specialist sub-networks where only a few activate per token, giving big-model capability at small-model running cost.
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
RAG — Retrieval-augmented generation — fetching relevant documents first and pasting them into the model's context so it answers from your data instead of memory.
subagent — A separate agent spawned by another to do one scoped piece of work in its own context, returning only the result.
Why it matters
A small, permissively licensed model aimed at the intermediate calls in AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → systems — routing, tool selection, summarization, validation — where frontier pricing is waste, and self-hostable for proprietary code.