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Flash Onyx 2.3 released with prompt refinements, not new weights

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The developer Natuworkguy has released Flash Onyx 2.3, an updated version of their AI model that runs on Ollama. This release does not introduce new model weights, instead focusing on refining the system prompt and improving agent behavior. Key changes include removing self-introductions, enhancing the model's response to AI

IMPACT Refined system prompts and agent behavior improvements may offer insights for developers building AI agents.

RANK_REASON This is a model release, but it is a fine-tuning of an existing model with no new weights, and it is from a single developer, not a frontier lab.

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Flash Onyx 2.3 released with prompt refinements, not new weights

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Nathan C. ·

    Flash Onyx 2.3: I shipped a model release with zero new weights

    <p>Flash Onyx 2.3 is on Ollama.</p> <p>Same gemma4 weights as 2.2. Same temperature, same <code>top_p</code>, same <code>top_k</code>, same every number a <code>PARAMETER</code> line can set. Pull both tags, diff them, and the only thing that changed is a system prompt.<br /> </p…

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