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🧬 Darwin-35B-A3B-Opus — The Child That Surpassed Both Parents
What if a merged model could beat both its parents? We proved it can.
Darwin-35B-A3B-Opus is a 35B MoE model (3B active) built with our Darwin V5 engine — the first evolution system that CT-scans parent models before merging them.
🤗 Model: FINAL-Bench/Darwin-35B-A3B-Opus
The result speaks for itself: GPQA Diamond 90.0%, versus Father (Qwen3.5-35B-A3B) at 84.2% and Mother (Claude 4.6 Opus Distilled) at 85.0%. That's +6.9% over Father and +5.9% over Mother. Not a tradeoff — a genuine leap. Meanwhile, MMMLU sits at 85.0% (Father: 85.2%), multimodal is fully intact, and all 201 languages are preserved.
How? Model MRI changed everything. Traditional merging is guesswork. Darwin V4 added evolution. Darwin V5 added X-ray vision. Model MRI scans each parent layer by layer and discovers: Mother's L34–L38 is the reasoning engine (peak cosine distance), 50–65% of Mother's experts are dead (killed by text-only distillation), and Father is a healthy generalist with every expert alive. The prescription: transplant Mother's reasoning brain at L38 (90% weight), replace her dead experts with Father's living ones, and let Father's router handle the output layer. Reasoning went up. Versatility stayed intact. No tradeoff — just evolution.
35B total, 3B active (MoE) · GPQA Diamond 90.0% · MMMLU 85.0% (201 languages) · Multimodal Image & Video · 262K native context · 147.8 tok/s on H100 · Runs on a single RTX 4090 (Q4) · Apache 2.0
Darwin V5's full algorithm and technical details will be released alongside an upcoming paper.
🚀 Live Demo: FINAL-Bench/Darwin-35B-A3B-Opus
🏆 FINAL Bench Leaderboard: FINAL-Bench/Leaderboard
📊 ALL Bench Leaderboard: FINAL-Bench/all-bench-leaderboard
Built by VIDRAFT · Supported by the Korean Government GPU Support Program
What if a merged model could beat both its parents? We proved it can.
Darwin-35B-A3B-Opus is a 35B MoE model (3B active) built with our Darwin V5 engine — the first evolution system that CT-scans parent models before merging them.
🤗 Model: FINAL-Bench/Darwin-35B-A3B-Opus
The result speaks for itself: GPQA Diamond 90.0%, versus Father (Qwen3.5-35B-A3B) at 84.2% and Mother (Claude 4.6 Opus Distilled) at 85.0%. That's +6.9% over Father and +5.9% over Mother. Not a tradeoff — a genuine leap. Meanwhile, MMMLU sits at 85.0% (Father: 85.2%), multimodal is fully intact, and all 201 languages are preserved.
How? Model MRI changed everything. Traditional merging is guesswork. Darwin V4 added evolution. Darwin V5 added X-ray vision. Model MRI scans each parent layer by layer and discovers: Mother's L34–L38 is the reasoning engine (peak cosine distance), 50–65% of Mother's experts are dead (killed by text-only distillation), and Father is a healthy generalist with every expert alive. The prescription: transplant Mother's reasoning brain at L38 (90% weight), replace her dead experts with Father's living ones, and let Father's router handle the output layer. Reasoning went up. Versatility stayed intact. No tradeoff — just evolution.
35B total, 3B active (MoE) · GPQA Diamond 90.0% · MMMLU 85.0% (201 languages) · Multimodal Image & Video · 262K native context · 147.8 tok/s on H100 · Runs on a single RTX 4090 (Q4) · Apache 2.0
Darwin V5's full algorithm and technical details will be released alongside an upcoming paper.
🚀 Live Demo: FINAL-Bench/Darwin-35B-A3B-Opus
🏆 FINAL Bench Leaderboard: FINAL-Bench/Leaderboard
📊 ALL Bench Leaderboard: FINAL-Bench/all-bench-leaderboard
Built by VIDRAFT · Supported by the Korean Government GPU Support Program
