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Public story · 2026-02-25 · source-backed
Multiverse Computing released HyperNova 60B on Hugging Face for free — a 50% compressed version of OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B using quantum-inspired CompactifAI compression. Memory drops from 61GB to 32GB (fits single consumer GPU) while showing 5x improvement on Tau2-Bench and 2x on Terminal Bench Hard agentic benchmarks. Action: If you need an on-premise open-weight model for agentic tool-calling, evaluate this at MultiverseComputingCAI/HyperNova-60B. (TechCrunch)
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