Meta researchers taught an 8B AI model to match Claude Opus 4.5 — without the frontier price tag
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An 8B model matching Claude Opus 4.5 on complex agent workflows points to a future where orchestration and harness design matter more than sheer parameter count. For builders, that means reallocating budget from ‘bigger model’ to runtime architecture, evals, and domain grounding.
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