alt Hacker NewsAgentic coding numbers on par with Qwen3.5-4B, the rest of the numbers on par with Qwen3.5-9B. Most impressive for a 1.7B model!
Liquid has also been very good about keeping speed in mind, and the writeup here makes me expect similar. Really good stuff.
Is anyone going to seriously use a model this small for coding? Doesn't seem like the intended use case or strength of these models.