BAAI Releases AREX-2: 27B Long-Horizon Agent Model

Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) released AREX-2, a 27B dense multimodal agent model built on Qwen3.8 with 262K context. Its long-horizon self-improvement improves deep research without additional search trajectories.

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