The Agent That Fits on a GPU: Distillation Is Closing the Frontier Gap
Meta shipped its biggest open-weight model this week, and a distilled 30B agent that plans, calls tools, and recovers from errors on a single consumer GPU.
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19 articlesMeta shipped its biggest open-weight model this week, and a distilled 30B agent that plans, calls tools, and recovers from errors on a single consumer GPU.
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