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Bespoke-Nimble-9B

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Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #0 in Decision models · score 0 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 4.5k · #555 of 619 tracked

Can I use it?Apache 2.0Permissive; patent grantlicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?4.5kdownloads, 30 days#555 of 619 we track · below the median+3 likes, downloads −36% this week243 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 3 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

3 best of 3 tracked

The 2 picks above, plus these 1. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleBespoke-Stratos: The unreasonable effectiveness of reasoning distillationbespokelabs.ai · 2025-01-26 · 13 HN pts

Where it's used

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No API provider serves it, so its downloads are people running it themselves: 13 Spaces.

  • As a service0no API provider listed
  • On own hardware0quantized builds
  • Built on40 fine-tunes · 4 adapters · 0 merges
  • In apps13Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: hugging-apps/bespoke-nimble-9b-demo ♥ 4

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

Most coverage came in the first two weeks

Teal is the weights (2026-09-18), amber triangles are 3 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

OctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2026-09-24: 1 repo commit2026-09-23: 1 repo commit2026-09-18: 5 repo commitsBespoke Nimble: open data, open model, open recipe for an open Jev · 2026-09-18Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer · 2021-09-14Bespoke-Stratos: The unreasonable effectiveness of reasoning distillation · 2025-01-26Weights 2026-09-18 · 2026-09-18Weights 2026-09-18now
OctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2026-09-24: 1 repo commit2026-09-23: 1 repo commit2026-09-18: 5 repo commitsBespoke Nimble: open data, open model, open recipe for an open Jev · 2026-09-18Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer · 2021-09-14Bespoke-Stratos: The unreasonable effectiveness of reasoning distillation · 2025-01-26Weights 2026-09-18 · 2026-09-18Weights 2026-09-18now

What people built on it

4 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

4 derivatives on the Hub, most of them adapters

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

4 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)4 adapters
4 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)4 adapters

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

What the card says

2 cited sentences

Summary generated, cited

Bespoke-Nimble-9B is a LoRA adapter for the Qwen3.5-9B base model designed for text classification tasks.[1] The model supports an 8,192-token context limit and up to 255 choices per field.[2]

  1. “Qwen3.5-9B LoRA adapter”
  2. “8,192-token context limit and up to 255 choices per field”

Generated 2026-10-07 15:18 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

4 use cases

What it is good at 4 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

11 fields

Listed in Decision models

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-classification
Librarypeft
MoEno
Languagesen
LicenseApache 2.0 (apache-2.0)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Decision facts

catalog

Decision-model catalog curated

How it was madeLoRA on answer tokens; contrastive data curation; "not distilled from Jev"
Lineage bucketF - fine-tune of an open model (public/synthetic data)
Lineage evidenceREADME + HF base_model
Base modelQwen/Qwen3.5-9B
Hosted price (input)self-hosted/M
Sourcehttps://huggingface.co/bespokelabs/Bespoke-Nimble-9B

All variants

4 variants

Lineage

Adapter Family: bespokelabs/Bespoke 4 derivatives on the Hub

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B

adapter: 4

Top variants (4 shown, ranked by downloads)

4 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
damianborek/polaris-1 adapter — — — apache-2.0 damianborek 1 41
DragonBophades/B2-Nimble-Bophades-9B adapter — 9.65B L apache-2.0 DragonBophades 1 32
damianborek/polaris-2 adapter — — — apache-2.0 damianborek 0 27
damianborek/polaris-3 adapter — — — apache-2.0 damianborek 0 22

Repository changelog

7 commits

Repository changelog 7 commits

DateCommitSHA
2026-09-24 Release latest Bespoke Nimble 9B; preserve original under original-2676 bd792f4
2026-09-23 Link to the 4926-example Bespoke-Nimble-9B-v2 release e93fabc
2026-09-18 add link to https://github.com/bespokelabsai/nimble 594dfdc
2026-09-18 Simplify model card and add Bespoke Labs branding e0592a9
2026-09-18 Rename model and inference entry point to Bespoke-Nimble-9B 8a29bac
2026-09-18 Upload verified OpenJeff Qwen3.5-9B evidence LoRA adapter 93ec5d6
2026-09-18 initial commit cfc303c

Articles and coverage

3 pieces

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Analysis2

bespokesynth.com2021-09-14HN front pageabout the Bespoke familyHN 745 pts · 242 comments350 words
Bespoke is a free, open-source modular synthesizer licensed under GPLv3 with releases for Mac, Windows, and Linux. It contains 190+ modules optimized for jamming and exploration instead of a global timeline. Users can pay $20 or $40 to donate to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund while accessing identical features.written, reviewed, cited
bespokelabs.ai2025-01-26about the Bespoke familyHN 13 pts · 2 comments767 words
Bespoke Labs released Bespoke-Stratos-32B, a reasoning model distilled from DeepSeek-R1 using Berkeley NovaSky's Sky-T1 data pipeline. The model outperforms Sky-T1 and o1-preview on Math and Code benchmarks while achieving near-DeepSeek-R1 performance with 47x fewer training examples. Training utilized the Bespoke Curator pipeline to generate the dataset within 1.5 hour, employing gpt-4o-mini to filter math solutions and increase retained correct solutions from 25% to 73%.written, reviewed, cited
  • The team found DeepSeek-R1 reasoning traces were sufficiently well-formatted for parsing without an intermediate reformatting step.
  • Sky-T1 authors noted they saw little or no improvement training 7B or 14B models with their data.

Community1

twitter.com2026-09-18about the Bespoke familyHN 7 pts · 0 comments

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Sources

3 sources

Sources

Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:43 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:46 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:18 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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