Sapient's Open-Source HRM-Text Model Tops 250K Downloads

Sapient open-sourced HRM-Text, a recursive hierarchical reasoning model trained for just $1,000. Its 1B version has gained traction on Hugging Face with over 255K total downloads, 27K weekly downloads, and 814 likes under the Apache 2.0 license.

2026-09-06 ~ 2026-09-06 · 2 related posts

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