Samaya AI Launches Sterling: 3B Finance Research Agent Model at Lower Cost
10/30/2026 — 10/30, 16:19·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- Samaya AI launched Sterling, a 3B active-parameter finance research agent model fine-tuned on Nemotron 3.5 Lightning. It scores 58.9% on Fro…
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On October 30, 2026, MarkTechPost reported that Samaya AI has released Sterling, a 3B-active-parameter model built for financial research agent workflows. Sterling is a post-trained variant of Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, tuned specifically for finance-oriented research tasks.
According to the report, Sterling scores 58.9% on the FrontierFinance benchmark at a cost of $0.61 per question. By comparison, Claude Fable 5.1 is cited at 55.9% on the same benchmark, with a cost of $6.89 per question. On those numbers, Sterling edges out Claude Fable 5.1 on accuracy while running at roughly one-eleventh of the per-question cost.
The release is documented through a single launch report so far, with no independent benchmarks or additional details from Samaya AI having surfaced yet.
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Samaya AI has released Sterling, a post-trained Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model designed for financial research. It scores 58.9% on FrontierFinance at $0.61 per question, outperforming Claude Fable 5.1's 55.9% while cutting costs significantly.
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