webAI open-sources TwIL-8B reasoning model, beats Qwen3.5-9B by 16 points on LiveCodeBench
eurie_kim · x · 2026-11-05
webAI released TwIL-8B, an open-weight 8.8B reasoning model built on the thesis that "the cost of completing a task matters more than the raw intelligence of the model," designed to run on hardware you already own.
- vs Qwen3.5-9B: 16-point lead on LiveCodeBench (81.6 vs 65.6), also ahead on MATH-500 (98.2 vs 96.6)
- vs Gemma 4 31B (4x larger): wins MATH-500 98.2 vs 87.9 and AIME 2025 88.3 vs 87.1
- Weights available on Hugging Face
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