ByteDance open-sources Axion 1.0-35B agent foundation model with full reproducible recipe

pmttyji · reddit · 2026-11-04

Axion 1.0 is a fully open 35B agent foundation model trained with a remarkably simple recipe: two lightweight SFT stages plus RL — no mid-training, DPO, or on-policy distillation — yet it's competitive with leading commercial models on several agentic benchmarks.

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