Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding

Summary

Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release from DeepReinforce. [...] with variants including 9B Dense, 31B Dense, 35B MoE, and 397B MoE. Built on top of pretrained Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5, it achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models of comparable size on coding benchmarks. As far as I can tell the licenses of those underlying models is compatible with being used in this way - Gemma

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