I searched for "base" and the best available base model seems to be indeed Llama...

		cubefox 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large ... I searched for "base" and the best available base model seems to be indeed Llama 3.1 405B Base at Hyperbolic.ai, as mentioned in the comment above.