Have you heard of Pleias ? Their SML baguettotron is blazingly fast, and surprisingly good at reasoning (but it's not programming-oriented).
Actually there is even a straight connection: Step-Fun DeepResearch trained on SYNTH (the open Baguettotron dataset).
Actually there is even a straight connection: Step-Fun DeepResearch trained on SYNTH (the open Baguettotron dataset).