Ornith-1.5-122B released: self-improving model built on Qwen

Ornith AI released Ornith-1.5-122B, which extends self-improvement from Ornith-1.0 (built on Qwen3.5 and Gemma4) to jointly optimize task generation, scaffold construction, and solution rollouts via reinforcement learning. The model is available in GGUF format on Hugging Face.

• Specializing SLM vocabularies can cut inference cost by 77%2026-10-21
• U-Space offers label-free uncertainty detection for LLMs2026-10-12
• FairStress: New benchmark evaluates fairness in LLM decision-making2026-10-20
• Researchers show edited open models can hide backdoors2026-10-20
• Developer vibecodes GPU server into controllable heater with Qwen2026-10-18