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Nigerian lab releases Tinfield 1, open-weight model beating Claude Opus 4.8

Badtheory Labs releases Tinfield 1, a 177B-parameter coding model that outperforms Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 on software engineering benchmarks.

What to know

  • Badtheory Labs released Tinfield 1, a 177B-parameter open-weight coding model from Nigeria.
  • The model outperforms Claude Opus 4.8 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 (33.0 vs. lower published score) and DeepSWE v1.1 (62.0 vs. lower published score).
  • Tinfield 1 is designed for terminal work and long-horizon software engineering tasks.

Badtheory Labs AI research lab (Nigeria)

Nigerian lab releases Tinfield 1, open-weight model beating Claude Opus 4.8
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    “Today, we're releasing Tinfield 1, an open-weight model for terminal work and long-horizon software engineering. Tinfield scores 33.0 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and 62.0 on DeepSWE v1.1, exceeding Claude Opus 4.8's published scores on both.”
    — Badtheory Labs
    • Today, we’re releasing Tinfield 1, an open-weight model for terminal work and long-horizon software engineering. Tinfield scores 33.0 on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and 62.0 on DeepSWE v1.1, exceeding Claude Opus 4.8’s published scores on both. 177B total parameters. 6.6B active per

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