Bad Theory Labs has released BTL-3, a 27-billion parameter agentic model designed for coding and tool use. The model is notable for its compact size, with a "Compact" version fitting into an 8.39GB file while retaining 92.2% of the original model's intelligence. BTL-3 is optimized for agentic loops, handling single, sequential, and parallel tool calls, and can even abstain from using tools when unnecessary. It achieves impressive benchmarks, including 95.12% pass@1 on HumanEval and 88.5% on BFCL v4 AST, with a context window of 262K tokens. AI
IMPACT Offers a highly compressed, locally runnable agent model for coding tasks.
RANK_REASON Release of a new open-weight model from a non-frontier lab. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]
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