# Ornith introduces 397B, 35B and 9B self-improvement models

_Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 10:48 AM EDT · AI, Products · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Ornith introduced Ornith-1.5 in 397B MoE, 35B MoE and 9B dense versions. The company said its training system generates tasks, task-specific scaffolds and solution rollouts, then uses reinforcement learning across those stages. It reported that the 397B model scored 86.1 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 56.0 on DeepSWE, while the 9B version can be deployed on iPhone and Android devices. The company said results were averaged across five independent runs.

## Sources

- [ornith.ai](https://ornith.ai/ornith_1_5.html)

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