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Ornith AI releases Ornith-1.5 model family with self-improvement focus

Ornith AI has released the Ornith-1.5 model family, featuring a 9B dense model and 35B and 397B Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) variants. These models are designed for self-improvement and have demonstrated competitive performance against established models like Claude Opus 4.8 on various benchmarks, including reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks. The models are available on Hugging Face and are compatible with popular inference tools such as Transformers, llama.cpp, vLLM, and SGLang, with instructions provided for integration. AI

IMPACT Sets a new benchmark for open-source models in its size class, potentially driving further innovation in self-improving AI architectures.

RANK_REASON Multiple sources detail the release of the Ornith-1.5 model family by Ornith AI, including technical specifications and integration instructions.

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COVERAGE [9]

  1. Hugging Face Trending Models TIER_1 English(EN) · ornith-ai ·

    ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF

    text-generation · 54,860 downloads · 102 likes

  2. Hugging Face Trending Models TIER_1 English(EN) · ornith-ai ·

    ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF

    text-generation · 0 downloads · 99 likes

  3. Hugging Face Trending Models TIER_1 English(EN) · ornith-ai ·

    ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B

    text-generation · 0 downloads · 97 likes

  4. Hugging Face Trending Models TIER_1 English(EN) · ornith-ai ·

    ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B

    text-generation · 1,324 downloads · 99 likes

  5. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Seraphym87 ·

    Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B Q4 running 60tk/s on 4070Ti.

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Not everyone has the disposable income to build a small data center, so making this post for the underdogs as I was very surprised by the performance/results of this 35B MOE model. Context is admittedly tight and will get laughed at by the big bo…

  6. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Fun-Meaning-6474 ·

    We quantized the new Ornith 1.5 9B and 35B-A3B

    <table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vsx94f/we_quantized_the_new_ornith_15_9b_and_35ba3b/"> <img alt="We quantized the new Ornith 1.5 9B and 35B-A3B" src="https://preview.redd.it/p5pjiui20ekh1.png?width=140&amp;height=111&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=855…

  7. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/zippydazoop ·

    Ornith-1.5 9B might not be bad at all

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>(my own experience)</p> <p>I have a mid-range gaming laptop from 2024 with 4GB VRAM and 16GB RAM. There is nothing that I can run other than small models at humble t/s. </p> <p>I mostly use the models to generate scripts for medical physics resea…

  8. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/KokaOP ·

    Ornith-1.5 (397B [DeepSWE 56], 35B-A3B, 9B)

    <table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vsou3a/ornith15_397b_deepswe_56_35ba3b_9b/"> <img alt="Ornith-1.5 (397B [DeepSWE 56], 35B-A3B, 9B)" src="https://preview.redd.it/isrta4gwickh1.jpg?width=140&amp;height=78&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=9e93ce9b20748f149…

  9. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 Deutsch(DE) · /u/tarruda ·

    Ornith 1.5: 9B dense and 35B/397B MoEs

    &#32; submitted by &#32; <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/tarruda"> /u/tarruda </a> <br /> <span><a href="https://x.com/ornith_/status/2090074077084127302">[link]</a></span> &#32; <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vsnllv/ornith_15_9b_dense_and_35b39…