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Dots Studio

Dots Studio: every model, side by side

Xiaohongshu's (RedNote's) in-house AI lab, formerly Hi Lab, releasing open-weight dots models such as dots.llm1, dots.ocr, and the dots3 family.

Total Models

1

Text Models

1

Active Period

Aug 2026 to Aug 2026

Xiaohongshu's (RedNote's) in-house AI lab, launched in early 2025 out of its LLM team and formerly known as Hi Lab.

First open-weight release was dots.llm1 (June 2025), a 142B-total / 14B-active MoE; dots.ocr (July 2025) is a 1.7B multilingual document parser.

Promoted to a first-level 'Dots' AI department inside Xiaohongshu in April 2026.

A dots-note-3.0 branch inside a bespoke proof harness posted a perfect 42/42 at IMO 2026; the published dots3-note Preview checkpoint is not that system.

Dots3-Note Preview (14 August 2026, Apache 2.0): 280B total / 16B active MoE with vision and audio encoders, 512K context, first open-weight dots3 model.

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Dots3-Note Preview

Aug 2026

Dots3-Note Preview is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model from Dots Studio, with 16B active parameters out of 280B total. It is the lightest model in the Dots 3 family and is suited for reasoning, coding, multimodal understanding, long-context processing, and multi-step agent workflows.

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