This Half-Gigabyte AI Model Runs Local Agents on Your Phone

In brief

• MiniCPM5-1B scores an average of 42.57 across agentic and reasoning benchmarks, beating the next-best 1B-class competitor’s 35.61.
• The model supports MCP and native tool calling out of the box, enabling local agent workflows on consumer hardware without cloud connectivity.
• In our tests,…