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Tether AI Research releases BotPsy-0.8B agent model for on-device use

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Tether AI Research has released BotPsy-0.8B, an open-source, on-device agent model built upon Qwen3.5-0.8B. This new model significantly outperforms its base and other models up to 1.2B parameters on various tool-use and agentic benchmarks. BotPsy also demonstrates improved instruction following, general knowledge, and enhanced safety by reducing unsafe responses and repetitive reasoning loops, making it suitable for efficient on-device deployment. AI

IMPACT Sets new SOTA for 0.8B models on agentic tasks, enabling more capable on-device AI applications.

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

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Tether AI Research releases BotPsy-0.8B agent model for on-device use

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

    Tether AI Research ships BotPsy-0.8B, an open on-device agent model that leads its size class

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