Ornith-1.5-397B: Open-Source MoE Model Focused on Coding and Reasoning

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ornith-ai has released Ornith-1.5-397B, an open-source multimodal mixture-of-experts model under the MIT licence. With 397 billion parameters and an end-to-end self-improvement loop, it delivers coding and reasoning benchmark performance comparable to top proprietary models.

Key points

  1. 397B mixture-of-experts architecture (qwen3_5_moe) supporting vision and text, licensed under MIT.
  2. Self-improvement pipeline jointly optimises task generation, scaffold building, and rollout rewards via reinforcement learning.
  3. Scores 86.1 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 86.0 on SWE-bench Verified, matching Claude Opus 4.8 in core benchmarks.
  4. Native 262,144-token context window, extensible up to roughly 1 million tokens using YaRN RoPE scaling.
  5. Built-in reasoning trace (<think> tags), tool calling support, and serving recipes for vLLM and SGLang using 8-way tensor parallelism.

Why it matters

Ornith-1.5-397B demonstrates that open-weights architectures trained with self-improving agentic loops can compete directly with leading proprietary systems in coding benchmarks, offering teams an unconstrained base model for complex agentic workflows.

Analysis

Building on Ornith-1.0 (which incorporated Qwen3.5 and Gemma4 checkpoints), Ornith-1.5 replaces fixed human-curated datasets with ongoing self-generated task discovery and RL policy refinement. While deploying the unquantised bf16 model demands enterprise-grade multi-GPU setups (such as 8x H200s for roughly 800 GB memory), standard compatibility with vLLM, SGLang, and OpenAI chat completions ensures straightforward integration into existing coding and agent harnesses.

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