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New small local open model has appeared.

New small local open model has appeared. With only 1.7B parameters, it's just 3 points behind its 4B sibling on SWE…

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New small local open model has appeared. With only 1.7B parameters, it's just 3 points behind its 4B sibling on SWE Verified—in the developer’s tests. Spark-X2.6-1.7B is a small model aimed at local agents, with three selectable thinking modes ⚡ No thinking 🧠 Low thinking 🔬 High thinking So you can give simple requests a smaller reasoning budget and reserve more thinking for harder work. In the team’s published results 🛠️ SWE Verified: 59.8, versus 62.8 for Spark 4B 🤖 τ²-bench: 85.3, versus 86.9 for Spark 4B Those scores used high-thinking mode. Apache 2.0. Chat and Base checkpoints,

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