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# Hugging Face Finds webAI's TwIL\-8B Model Beats LFM3\-1\.7B in AI Agent Tests

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**Published:** 2026-11-07T08:22:32.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** agent

## Summary

Hugging Face researchers found that webAI's TwIL\-8B model outperformed Liquid AI's LFM3\-1\.7B across three agent harnesses during preliminary baseline evaluations\. TwIL\-8B is an 8\.8B parameter open\-weight model built on IBM's Granite 4\.2 8B that was designed to run on consumer CPUs and graphics cards\.

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