AINewsnow

48M Parameter Tool-Calling Model Released with C Engine

This story is from 2026-08-25. It is preserved in the archive; the latest stories are on the live feed.

A developer released thimble, a 48M parameter model focused solely on tool calling, with a 48MB single-file C engine that outperforms the torch stack. Weights are available under MIT license.

Read the full story at r/deeplearning ↗

Timeline · 2 reports

  1. 2026-08-25 07:55 · r/huggingface
    released thimble: a 48M param tool-calling-only model, now with a 48MB single-file C engine that beats the torch stack
  2. 2026-08-25 07:14 · r/deeplearning
    what worked and what didn't when training a 48M param tool-calling model from scratch, with the measurement behind each call

More stories

  1. Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock — AWS Machine Learning Blog
  2. Introducing Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway — AWS Machine Learning Blog
  3. Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google sued over call to ‘pace’ AI development — Politico Technology
  4. Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI — Wall Street Journal Technology
  5. Alibaba ships Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash to watch, listen and call tools — r/LocalLLM
  6. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang rejects ‘AI will end the world’ claim, yet cautions ‘we should go as fast as we can but...’ — Mint AI
  7. Meet the Data Agent in ChatGPT Work — OpenAI YouTube
  8. AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack — Ars Technica AI

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →