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Samaya AI releases Sterling, a finance-focused Nemotron 3.5 variant

Samaya AI has released Sterling, a LoRA variant of NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, specifically fine-tuned for agentic financial research. This model achieves a score of 58.9% on the FrontierFinance benchmark, outperforming Claude Fable 5.1. Sterling offers a significant cost reduction, priced at $0.61 per question compared to $6.89, and can operate on a single H100 80GB GPU. AI

IMPACT This specialized model could improve efficiency and reduce costs for AI-driven financial research tasks.

RANK_REASON This is a fine-tuned variant of an existing model, not a novel frontier release.

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Samaya AI releases Sterling, a finance-focused Nemotron 3.5 variant

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    Samaya AI has released Sterling, a post-trained LoRA variant of NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning tuned for agentic financial research. It scores 58.9% on the Front

    Samaya AI has released Sterling, a post-trained LoRA variant of NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning tuned for agentic financial research. It scores 58.9% on the FrontierFinance benchmark against 55.9% for Claude Fable 5.1, at 0.61 USD per question instead of 6.89 USD, and runs on a sin…