# Bad Influence story: Tether AI Research releases BotPsy 0.8B on-device agent model under Apache 2.0

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-11 00:01. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/f21d76a6-f7e6-4887-bffc-cc112bd1cf8e

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Latest update (11-11 00:01): Tether AI Research releases BotPsy, a 0.8B on-device agent model

Overview: 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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1. 11-11 00:01 · Hugging Face Blog (from the company) · [Tether AI Research releases BotPsy, a 0.8B on-device agent model](https://badinfluence.news/items/aknlra62psfjc12nmc3y3do3b)
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