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MiniCPM5-2B vs. Spark-X2.5-4B / -64% thinking, x1.5 speed while keeping the accuracy of xhigh

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We gave two small LLMs a real customer-service task. One got 100/100. The other stopped with the job half-done. I wanted to test something more meaningful than benchmark scores: can a small model actually complete a multi-step agent task without handing the work back to the human? The task: A custo…

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    MiniCPM5-2B vs. Spark-X2.5-4B / -64% thinking, x1.5 speed while keeping the accuracy of xhigh

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