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EmpirioLabsAI releases Aplomb 1, a 5.3B decision model with 1M context

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EmpirioLabsAI has released Aplomb 1, an open-weights decision model with 5.3 billion parameters. This model boasts a 1 million token context window and can process text, images, video, and audio in a single request. It has achieved the top score among models up to 5.3B on 8 benchmarks within the Decision Index, including MMLU-Pro and GPQA Diamond. Aplomb 1 is built upon Qwen3.5-4B and Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct, with extensions to its context window and a trained decision head. AI

IMPACT Sets a new benchmark for multimodal decision models with long context capabilities.

RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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EmpirioLabsAI releases Aplomb 1, a 5.3B decision model with 1M context

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/empiriolabsai ·

    Aplomb 1: open-weights 5.3B decision model, 1M context, text/image/video/audio in one request, #1 among 4B models on the Decision Index

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