Tether AI Research releases BotPsy 0.8B on-device agent model under Apache 2.0
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Tether AI Research introduces BotPsy, a 0.8-billion-parameter model built on Qwen3.5-0.8B for function calling and agentic workflows on devices.
The Hugging Face Blog post says BotPsy leads five of six tool-use benchmarks among models up to 1.2 billion parameters.
Tether says BotPsy will be released with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license for research and educational use. It will come in bf16, Q8 and Q4 precisions, as Hugging Face safetensors files and as GGUF files for the QVAC SDK and llama.cpp.
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AITether AI Research introduces BotPsy, a 0.8B-parameter model built on Qwen3.5-0.8B for function calling and agentic workflows on devices. The post reports BotPsy leads five of six tool-use benchmarks among models up to 1.2B parameters, and says it will be released with open weights under Apache 2.0 in bf16, Q8 and Q4 precisions, as safetensors and GGUF files for the QVAC SDK and llama.cpp.
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