Open model family (9B dense, 35B MoE, 397B MoE) trained with a self-improvement loop where the system proposes problems, builds scaffolds and generates RL data. The largest beats GLM 5.2 and nears Opus 4.8 on agentic benchmarks; GGUFs released.

Ornith 1.5
Open model family (9B dense, 35B MoE, 397B MoE) trained with a self-improvement loop for reasoning, coding and agentic tasks.
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Ornith 1.5 at a glance
- What is Ornith 1.5?
- Ornith 1.5 is a model. Open model family (9B dense, 35B MoE, 397B MoE) trained with a self-improvement loop for reasoning, coding and agentic tasks.
- Does Ornith 1.5 work in the EU?
- Available in the EU. Described as an open model family with downloadable weights and GGUFs, so it is generally usable anywhere; no explicit EU restriction was found, though the licence was not seen. Last verified 14 Nov 2026.
- How much does Ornith 1.5 cost?
- Open source. Described as an open-source model family; no pricing found. Weights are reportedly free to download (GGUFs mentioned by creators).
- Where was Ornith 1.5 shown?
- In 1 creator video by AI Search. Most recently by AI Search on 23 Aug 2026, at 7:27 in “New AI waifus, new Deepseek, realtime worlds, Happy Shrimp, tiny TTS: AI NEWS”.
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Ornith-1.5 is a family of open models in three sizes: 397B MoE, 35B MoE (about 3B active parameters per token) and 9B dense. It extends Ornith-1.0, which was built on Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 with continued pretraining, mid-training and post-training.
Its training uses a self-improvement loop. The model proposes progressively harder tasks, generates task-specific scaffolds (instructions, tools, decomposition, orchestration) and produces solution rollouts for reinforcement learning. Reward is propagated across all three stages and combines task validity, frontier difficulty (target success rate 0.2) and novelty.
The vendor reports Ornith-1.5-397B at 86.1 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 56.0 on DeepSWE, compared with Claude Opus 4.8 (85.0 and 59.0), GLM-5.2 (82.7 and 46.2) and DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 (82.7 and 54.4). The 35B scores 68.5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 79.0 on SWE-Bench Verified. The 9B scores 47.0 and 70.6, and a quantized 9B-Mobile version targets iPhone and Android. These are vendor-reported figures and have not been independently verified here. Creators also mention GGUF releases. Licence, download links and vendor identity were not found in the provided material.
- Three sizes: 397B MoE, 35B MoE (3B active), 9B dense
- Self-improvement loop: self-generated tasks, scaffolds and rollouts for RL
- Strong reported results on Terminal-Bench 2.1, DeepSWE and SWE-Bench Verified
- Quantized 9B-Mobile variant for iPhone and Android
- Built on Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 bases
- GGUF builds reportedly released
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