Morning Edition · Tuesday, September 8, 2026Published at 2:18 AM EDT · New York
The 2.52-billion-parameter model averages 53.9 across 34 benchmarks and ships under Apache 2.0 alongside the pretraining corpora, supervised datasets and reinforcement learning samples used to build it.

OpenBMB released MiniCPM5-2B, a dense, 2.52-billion-parameter reasoning model under the Apache 2.0 license, built for on-device and resource-constrained deployment. The company says it ranks first among open-source models under four billion…
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