An agentic MoE model for CLI tools like Claude Code and Codex, with 320B total and 15B active parameters. It works through long software tasks and performs well for its size. Code is released.

IQuest Q1
by IQuest Lab
320B-parameter MoE model (15B active) from IQuest for agentic coding and tool use, with 512K context.
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IQuest Q1 at a glance
- What is IQuest Q1?
- IQuest Q1 is a model from IQuest Lab. 320B-parameter MoE model (15B active) from IQuest for agentic coding and tool use, with 512K context.
- Who makes IQuest Q1?
- IQuest Q1 is made by IQuest Lab.
- Does IQuest Q1 work in the EU?
- Available in the EU. Weights are self-hostable anywhere via Docker/SGLang/vLLM, and no EU exclusion was found in the README; the license is unspecified (NOASSERTION), so terms should be verified. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does IQuest Q1 cost?
- Open source. Weights are downloadable for self-hosting (README uses `hf download IQuestLab/IQuest-Q1`); no hosted pricing found. Release date is the GitHub repo creation date. Licence: Unspecified (GitHub reports NOASSERTION).
- Where was IQuest Q1 shown?
- In 1 creator video by AI Search. Most recently by AI Search on 4 Oct 2026, at 37:48 in “Gemini 4, GPT 6.1, Plasma conjecture, Napoleon code solved, OpenAI Dots, Claude Sonnet 5.5: AI NEWS”.
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IQuest-Q1 is a Mixture-of-Experts language model from IQuest Lab built for agentic coding, reasoning and multi-step tool use. It has about 320B total parameters with an estimated 15B activated per token, 88 transformer layers, 256 experts (8 active), and a hybrid attention pattern of three sliding-window layers to one full-attention layer. The context length is 524,288 tokens. It also includes multi-token prediction (MTP) layers used for speculative decoding at inference.
The model is intended to be driven by CLI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex. The README recommends Claude Code 2.1.140 or Codex 0.142, with sampling at temperature 1.0, top-p 0.95 and top-k 20. Tool calling goes through a gateway that supports the Anthropic Messages API (Claude Code) or the OpenAI Responses API (Codex). The authors report benchmark results against DeepSeek-V4 models, including an in-house CLI benchmark, but the figures are self-reported and not independently verified here.
It is self-hosted: the repository provides Docker images and launch commands for SGLang and a vLLM fork, exposing an OpenAI-compatible API, with the examples using 8-way tensor parallelism. The model is text-only; it has no multimodal input. The repository license is listed as NOASSERTION, so the exact terms should be checked before use. The Hugging Face repository is referenced in the README's download commands (IQuestLab/IQuest-Q1).
- 320B total / 15B active parameter MoE (256 experts, 8 active)
- 524,288-token context with hybrid sliding-window and full attention
- Designed for Claude Code and Codex agent harnesses
- Multi-token prediction layers for speculative decoding
- OpenAI-compatible serving via SGLang or vLLM Docker images
- Text-only; no multimodal input
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