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Apodex releases open-source research harness and Qwen finetune

Apodex has released a new deep research harness and model, Apodex-1.1-mini, which is an open-sourced finetune of Qwen 3.5 35B. The model, with 3 billion active parameters, is claimed to be comparable to frontier models. Apodex has also published a blog post detailing the scaling of agentic intelligence for complex work and offers a platform for testing the model. AI

IMPACT Provides a new open-source tool for deep research and agentic intelligence, potentially enabling further development in complex task automation.

RANK_REASON Release of an open-sourced finetuned model and research harness. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Apodex releases open-source research harness and Qwen finetune

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