Meta researchers taught an 8B AI model to match Claude Opus 4.5 — without the frontier price tag

August 28, 2026 · 4:33 pm 1 sources

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• Meta researchers taught an 8B AI model to match Claude Opus 4.5 — without the frontier price tag
  VentureBeat · August 28, 2026 16:33
  Consider an AI agent tasked with a complex enterprise workflow like migrating massive batches of customer records from a legacy CRM to a cloud database. The agent cannot rely solely on its internal context window for a job spanning hours and depends on the runtime layer, aka the harness . This…