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OpenBMB releases MiniCPM5-1B, topping the Artificial Analysis small model index and beating the larger Qwen3.5-2B

Its 0.5 GB size enables fully offline local execution.

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MiniCPM5-1B is now live — the strongest open‑source base model under 2B.🚀🚀 🔥 Ranks #1 on the Artificial Analysis (AA) index for small models, scoring 17.9 to beat the 2B-scale Qwen3.5-2B (16.3). ⚡ Comprehensively surpasses Qwen3.5-0.8B and LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking in knowledge, math, coding, and tool use. 🏗️ INT4 weights = just ~0.5GB — runs on phones, browsers, laptops. 👾 Powers fully offline AI “Desktop Pet” — no cloud, no GPU cluster. Try the model here: 🤗 Hugging Face: https://huggingface.openbmb.com/model/openbmb/MiniCPM5-1B 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM 🔭 Modelscope: https://modelscope.cn/models/OpenBMB/MiniCPM5-1B

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MiniCPM5-1B is now live — the strongest open‑source base model under 2B.🚀🚀 🔥 Ranks #1 on the Artificial Analysis (AA) index for small models, scoring 17.9 to beat the 2B-scale Qwen3.5-2B (16.3). ⚡ Comprehensively surpasses Qwen3.5-0.8B and LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking in knowledge, math, coding, and tool use. 🏗️ INT4 weights = just ~0.5GB — runs on phones, browsers, laptops. 👾 Powers fully offline AI “Desktop Pet” — no cloud, no GPU cluster. Try the model here: 🤗 Hugging Face: https://huggingface.openbmb.com/model/openbmb/MiniCPM5-1B 💻 GitHub: https://github.com/OpenBMB/MiniCPM 🔭 Modelscope: https://modelscope.cn/models/OpenBMB/MiniCPM5-1B

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