New Small Model Mimir Released
·2026.08.17 21:39
Key point
Mimir, a new 1.7B-scale model supporting English and Danish, has been released, demonstrating performance that surpasses Qwen and Gemma.
Details
Mimir is a small language model (SLM) with approximately 1.7B parameters, supporting English and Danish.
Key features include:
- Superior benchmark performance compared to existing small models such as Qwen 3.5 (0.8B & 2B) and Gemma 4 E2B.
- Based on Sapient's HRM-text model, utilizing a unique layer-recurrence mechanism.
- Shows decent performance in mathematical and coding tasks.