Spanish AI firm unveils Quasar 438B, matching the performance of Qwen 2 7B’s low-inference tier to become Europe’s top-ranked AI model.

Insight Beating AI Flash News: Spanish firm Multiverse Computing has officially launched Quasar 438B, a 438-billion-parameter inference model. Independent testing by Artificial Analysis gave it a score of 43, higher than Mistral Medium 3.5’s 30 points, making it the highest-scoring European model on the current ranking. However, this "European No.1" still lags far behind global leading models. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Ranking, Claude Fable 5.1 max’s inference tier has already scored 66 points. Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 27B, with only 27 billion parameters, matches Quasar’s 43 points in the low inference tier, hits 44 points in the medium tier, and even reaches 52 points in the xhigh tier. Quasar has not released its weights, and Multiverse Computing has not disclosed its model architecture, training data, or actual activated parameter count. Some community members have questioned that it is fine-tuned from other models, but official documentation explicitly lists Quasar as an "Original Model".