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Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class

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The AllSpark team has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents built on Qwen models that lead benchmarks among open-weight models in their size classes. According to the paper, the training data and models also improved performance on tasks they were never trained for, includi…

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  1. 2026-09-13 12:58 · The Decoder
    Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class

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