TwIL-8B is an 8.8B open-weight reasoning model that webAI says runs on hardware people already own. It reports 81.6 vs 65.6 on LiveCodeBench against Qwen3.5-9B, and wins on MATH-500 (98.2 vs 87.9) and AIME 2025 (88.3 vs 87.1) against the much larger Gemma...
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webAI releases TwIL-8B, an open-weight reasoning model
TwIL-8B is an 8.8B open-weight reasoning model that webAI says runs on hardware people already own. It reports 81.6 vs 65.6 on LiveCodeBench against Qwen3.5-9B, and wins on MATH-500 (98.2 vs 87.9) and AIME 2025 (88.3 vs 87.1) against the much larger Gemma...
TwIL-8B is an 8.8B open-weight reasoning model that webAI says runs on hardware people already own. It reports 81.6 vs 65.6 on LiveCodeBench against Qwen3.5-9B, and wins on MATH-500 (98.2 vs 87.9) and AIME 2025 (88.3 vs 87.1) against the much larger Gemma 4 31B. Why it matters: A small model that reasons well can...
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