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Samaya Releases Sterling: 3B-Active Model Outperforms Claude Fable 5.1 in Financial Research

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Samaya AI released Samaya Sterling, a model with only 3B active parameters that outperforms Claude Fable 5.1 on financial research tasks. By co-training the model with its harness and using condenser/compactor mechanisms, Sterling achieves an 11x cost reduction while maintaining competitive accuracy, though results are self-reported and performance drops on the hardest queries.

LATEST/Samaya AI released Samaya Sterling, a model with only 3B active parameters that outperforms Claude Fable 5.1 on financial research tasks. By co-training the model with its harness and using condenser/compactor mechanisms, Sterling achieves an 11x cost reduction while maintaining competitive accuracy, though results are self-reported and performance drops on the hardest queries.

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  1. Marktechpost (@Marktechpost)T2·72 pts

    Samaya Releases Sterling: 3B-Active Model Outperforms Claude Fable 5.1 in Financial Research

    • Sterling is based on Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (30B MoE) with only 3B active parameters, significantly reducing compute costs.
    • Utilizes a four-stage post-training process (SFT + GRPO) and long-context compression mechanisms to optimize research capabilities.
    • Scores 58.9% on FrontierFinance (vs. 55.9% for Claude Fable 5.1) at a cost of $0.61 per query.
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