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AI · May 26, 2026

MiniCPM5-1B

A new SOTA for compact open models on the edge

MiniCPM5-1B launched on May 26, 2026 with 96 votes, #343 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

What it does

MiniCPM5-1B is a dense 1B open model built for on-device and local deployment. It supports 131K context, Think / No Think modes, tool calling, GGUF and MLX formats, major inference backends, and even powers an offline desktop pet.

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

We are releasing MiniCPM5-1B , the first model in the MiniCPM5 series. It is a dense 1B Transformer built for on-device, local deployment, and resource-constrained scenarios, reaching 1B-class open-source SOTA. 🏆 1B-class open-source SOTA : compared with strong open-source models in the same size class, MiniCPM5-1B reaches SOTA within this comparison set. Its advantage is most visible in agentic tool use, code generation, and difficult reasoning. 🧠 Hybrid Reasoning : built-in <think> chat template, switch via enable_thinking . The same checkpoint serves as both a fast assistant and a deliberate reasoner. 🛠️ Deployment / Fine-tuning Resources : the MiniCPM GitHub repo provides single-page…from huggingface.co

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