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AI · ornith.ai · Friday, 21 August 2026

Ornith-1.5 open weights train themselves, and match Claude Opus 4.8

DeepReinforce's Ornith-1.5 doesn't just get trained; it trains itself. The model proposes its own tasks, writes its own scaffolds, and grades its own rollout solutions, closing the loop with no human-curated curriculum in the chain. The open-weight family ships in 397B, 35B, and 9B sizes under MIT, with the 397B flagship scoring on par with Claude Opus 4.8 on agentic coding and a quantized 9B-Mobile build that runs on phones.

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