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Developer releases 400M parameter model for in-game NPC judgment calls

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A developer has created Ettin-400M, a 400 million parameter model designed for making judgment calls in video games. This model, released under the Apache-2.0 license, can process scenes and questions to determine probabilities or indicate uncertainty, functioning as a checker for dialogue generation or for NPC decision-making. It achieves fast inference times, around 0.1 seconds on a 3060 Ti GPU, and is available via pip install for local use. AI

IMPACT Enables developers to integrate more sophisticated NPC decision-making and dialogue checking into games with low computational overhead.

RANK_REASON This is a release of a small, specialized model for a specific application (game development), not a frontier model release or significant industry event.

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Developer releases 400M parameter model for in-game NPC judgment calls

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

    I made a 400M model for NPC judgement calls in games (Apache-2.0, ~0.1s on a 3060 Ti)

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The model is an encoder (Ettin-400M) fine-tuned to answer small game questions. You give it a scene, a question, and some options, and it returns probabilities or &quot;not sure&quot;. The model was inspired by Jev.</p> <p>Stuff like: is the play…

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