Mellum2

Mellum2 is JetBrains' open-weight LLM) for AI workflows, released open source under Apache 2.0 in June 2026. It is the successor to Mellum: where the original focused on code completion, Mellum2 handles both natural language and code. JetBrains positions it as engineered for the hard parts of produc

Canonical version: Mellum2.

Mellum2 is JetBrains' open-weight LLM for AI workflows, released open source under Apache 2.0 in June 2026. It is the successor to Mellum: where the original focused on code completion, Mellum2 handles both natural language and code. JetBrains positions it as engineered for the hard parts of production AI: latency, throughput, and cost.

Architecture

  • 12B total parameters, MoE design with only ~2.5B active per token
  • Trained specifically on natural language and code; not multimodal
  • Open weights on HuggingFace

What it's for

A small, cheap, fast model to do the unglamorous plumbing of agentic systems rather than frontier reasoning:

  • Routing and orchestrating AI workloads
  • Low-latency RAG pipelines
  • Powering sub-agents in complex workflows
  • Private, local AI deployment

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