Ornith-1.5 claims Claude Opus 4.8 performance
alexcovo_eth · x · 2026-08-20
The Ornith-1.5 family (9B Dense, 35B MoE, 397B MoE) was released, claiming state-of-the-art performance among open-source models and parity with Claude Opus 4.8 in reasoning and agentic tasks via end-to-end self-improvement. A demo shows the 9B model running a full agentic loop offline to analyze revenue from spreadsheets.
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