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Bad Theory Labs releases BTL-4, a 35B agentic reasoning model

Bad Theory Labs has released BTL-4, a 35 billion parameter agentic reasoning model fine-tuned from Ornith-1.0-35B. This model is specifically designed for tool use, software engineering tasks, and long-horizon agent work. It has been evaluated on benchmarks like BFCL and LiveCodeBench, demonstrating its capabilities in execution-gated reasoning. AI

IMPACT This model's focus on agentic reasoning and tool use could accelerate development in autonomous AI agents and complex software engineering tasks.

RANK_REASON Model release from a named lab (Bad Theory Labs) with specific parameters and intended use cases. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Bad Theory Labs releases BTL-4, a 35B agentic reasoning model

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