Tether unveiled QVAC BotPsy, an 800-million-parameter AI agent designed to carry out tasks on personal devices. In Tether’s testing, it ranked highest on five of six tool-use benchmarks against four other models, including one with 2.5 times as many parameters. Its average score was 45.0%, compared with 38.8% for the larger Qwen model.
BotPsy is available as an open-weight model that developers can download and adapt, but Tether has not announced a release date for a finished consumer assistant. The release does not include training code or data. Tether says the model could handle tasks such as messaging and scheduling locally, potentially without sending personal information to cloud servers.
