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SEC.03 / LLM Research [01] 2026.09.28

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MiniCPM5-2B Leads a Week of Small Model Releases: Benchmarks, Limits, and Edge Use Cases

OpenBMB's MiniCPM5-2B averaged 53.9 across its own benchmark set, ahead of larger 4B-class models. What the numbers mean, how Liquid AI's DSpark drafter speeds up small vision models, and why research on uncertainty features matters for deploying small models.

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