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thegovind Research / non-commercial (blink-research) out 31 days ago

26.9B parameters, text in, labels out, 256K tokens of context.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #0 in Decision models · score 0 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 144 · #615 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?16GB at INT4Estimatefits a 24 GB cardmethod
Can I use it?Research / non-commercial (blink-research)Non-commercial onlylicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?144downloads, 30 days#615 of 619 we track · below the median+0 likes, downloads −10% this week0 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 2 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

No API provider serves it, so its downloads are people running it themselves: 2 Spaces.

  • As a service0no API provider listed
  • On own hardware0quantized builds
  • Built on00 fine-tunes · 0 adapters · 0 merges
  • In apps2Hugging Face Spaces

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 64 GB Mac (unified memory) at INT4

About 16 GB at INT4, 32 GB at FP8, 65 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 16 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT416 GBFP8: about 32 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP832 GBBF16: about 65 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1665 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 16 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT416 GBFP8: about 32 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP832 GBBF16: about 65 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF1665 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

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

2 dated articles and 15 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2026-09-24), amber triangles are 2 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

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Reference

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

Benchmarks

6 rows

Benchmarks 6 rows

measured third-party leaderboard rowauthor-reported number from the model card or eval files (6)No confidence intervals unless the source gave them; settings differ between rows, so compare within a benchmark, not across. Date = the benchmark's own date when it gives one, else when we read it.
BenchmarkValueSetting / notesReported byDate
author-reported Computer use in ten apps87% percentOverallmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Computer use in ten apps30/30Shop, settings, filesmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Computer use in ten apps20/20Calendar, phonemodel author2026-10-07
author-reported Decision Index (DI) · Classify and make typed decisions52.72Local development readoutmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported JevBench public hard items90/111batchedmodel author2026-10-07
author-reported JevBench public hard items89/111via serial `serve.py`model author2026-10-07

What the card says

1 cited sentence

Summary generated, cited

The model provides probabilities for choice, noul, or score questions without generating text.[1]

  1. “Get a probability for each offered answer without generat…”

Generated 2026-10-07 15:19 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

5 use cases

What it is good at 5 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

21 fields

Listed in Decision models

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-classification
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesQwen3_5ForCausalLM
Model typeqwen3_5_text
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 26,895,998,464
Size bandL
MoEno
Context length262,144 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
Languagesen
LicenseResearch / non-commercial (blink-research) (other)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · Qwen3_5ForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · Qwen3_5ForCausalLM · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for blink-27b: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)65 GB · Single high-end GPU (<80 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)32 GB · Single high-end GPU (<80 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)16 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra.

Decision facts

catalog

Decision-model catalog curated

How it was madeSFT on target distributions (program-generated, public, teacher-written rows), adapters merged
Lineage bucketF - fine-tune of an open model (public/synthetic data)
Lineage evidencemodel card + HF base_model
Base modelQwen/Qwen3.5-4B ; Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
DI 0.2.1 score52.12 / 63.44 (DI 0.1 edition) (self-reported (older edition))
Hosted price (input)self-hosted/M
Sourcehttps://huggingface.co/thegovind/blink-27b

All variants

lineage

Lineage

Fine-tuned from Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B Family: thegovind/blink 0 derivatives on the Hub

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

Repository changelog

15 commits

Repository changelog 15 commits

DateCommitSHA
2026-09-30 Card: customize it 34f301c
2026-09-30 Card: run it on a Mac with MLX 198d250
2026-09-30 Card: computer-use Code link points at examples/cua 61a6f75
2026-09-29 Card: crisper card, computer use first a8c7379
2026-09-28 Card: crisper card, computer use first 4f6f817
2026-09-27 Card: link Screen click and the Computer use docs aec170f
2026-09-27 Code revision v1.4: card update 59ce811
2026-09-27 Code revision v1.3: opt-in screenshot input (self-hosted) e3d6f9b
2026-09-26 Shorter card; link the API docs badd4ad
2026-09-26 Card: links to the source code and docs 275ef8b
2026-09-26 v1.2: TypeSafe API wire compatibility in serve.py (server-side SDKs, GET /v1/models, optional API key, error detail, request ids; a full batching queue answers 529); score answers carry confidence; weights unchanged 1f18127
2026-09-26 Card: local Decision Index 0.2 run (descriptive; known training exposure not penalized) and its evidence file 69611a5
2026-09-25 Card: architecture, post-training and readout diagrams 3dd3c9b
2026-09-24 Card and licence corrections: audit scope, reproduction wording, MiMo lineage 9e7dfc2
2026-09-24 blink v1.0 295bab7

Articles and coverage

2 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Analysis2

blink.sh2016-11-11HN front pageabout the blink familyHN 219 pts · 107 comments569 words
Blink is a terminal application for iOS and iPadOS that provides a distraction-free command line experience. It supports remote connections using Mosh, which maintains integrity even when devices sleep, and is built on libssh and libssh2. The tool supports Ed25519, ECDSA, and RSA keys and was designed to handle connections that previously could not last for 5 minutes.written, reviewed, cited
washingtonpost.com2018-06-20about the blink familyHN 1 pts · 0 comments

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Sources

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Sources

Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:46 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:19 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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