Occamy-1.0: Open Pareto-frontier 35B Intelligence for Co-work
Wenhui Chen, Shiwen Cheng, Hao Dong, Chenda Duan, Ruixiang Feng, Zhong Guan, Boqiang Guo, Xueyuan Han and 35 others
Accio Team
Published September 4, 2026 · on the feed September 14, 2026 · ▲ 93 · arXiv 2609.11977
The abstract
Co-work agents execute complex workflows that combine information gathering, tool use, coding, and file manipulation across many model invocations. Because cost and latency accumulate over the full episode, their practical value depends not only on peak capability but also on how efficiently that capability is delivered. Yet many steps in everyday work emphasize state tracking, coordination, recovery, and follow-through rather than frontier-scale reasoning. We present Occamy-1.0, a cost-efficient co-work model obtained by further training the post-trained Qwen3.6-35B-A3B checkpoint. We construct execution-grounded data and environments, capture replayable long-horizon trajectories across multiple harnesses, and use staged post-training to develop and consolidate complementary execution capabilities. Across a broad suite of co-work benchmarks, Occamy-1.0 is consistently among the strongest comparably sized models and remains competitive with substantially larger frontier systems on several tasks. Under our stated evaluation and pricing protocol, its aggregate performance across four representative benchmarks places it at the low-cost knee of the observed cost--performance Pareto frontier. Supporting evaluations in tool calling, coding, and instruction following further show that this specialization preserves broad agentic capability. We release the model weights and a subset of the training data to support research on practical co-work agents and agentic post-training.
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Occamy-1.0. Open Pareto-frontier 35B Intelligence for Co-work. By Wenhui Chen and forty-two others, from the Accio Team. Published on the fourth of September. Its code repository is public but slight: nine source files.
Co-work agents run complex workflows that mix information gathering, tool use, coding and file manipulation, across many model invocations. Cost and latency accumulate over the whole episode, so practical value depends not only on peak capability but on how efficiently that capability is delivered. And many steps in everyday work call less for frontier-scale reasoning than for state tracking, coordination, recovery and follow-through.
Occamy-1.0 is a co-work model built for cost efficiency. It is obtained by further training the post-trained Qwen3.6-35B-A3B checkpoint, specialising an existing model for this kind of work rather than reaching for a larger one. The reasoning follows from the problem. If an episode involves many calls, and most of those calls need reliable execution more than peak reasoning, then a model tuned for execution can deliver that value more cheaply over the whole episode.
Training rests on three pieces. Execution-grounded data and environments are constructed for the purpose. Replayable long-horizon trajectories are captured across multiple harnesses. And staged post-training develops, then consolidates, complementary execution capabilities. Every piece points the same way: data taken from work that was actually carried out, trajectories long enough to include the tracking and recovery that everyday work demands, and training that builds several complementary skills before consolidating them into one model.
Across a broad suite of co-work benchmarks, Occamy-1.0 is consistently among the strongest models of comparable size, and remains competitive with substantially larger frontier systems on several tasks. Under the authors' stated evaluation and pricing protocol, its aggregate performance across four representative benchmarks places it at the low-cost knee of the observed Pareto frontier of cost against performance. The knee is the point where moving to a costlier model starts buying noticeably less performance for each extra unit spent.
Supporting evaluations in tool calling, coding and instruction following show that the specialisation preserves broad agentic capability rather than trading it away.
The model weights and a subset of the training data are released, to support research on practical co-work agents and on agentic post-training. The argument is about fit rather than size. When much of an episode is tracking, coordinating and recovering, a thirty-five billion parameter model trained on execution can sit at the cheap end of the frontier without giving up its broader agentic skills.
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Chapter 1 🧩 · The problem
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You run agents that carry out everyday digital work: gathering information, calling tools, writing code and editing files, over many model calls in one long episode.
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- 1 · The problem ~7 min Agents doing long stretches of everyday digital work pay for every model call, yet many calls need steady execution rather than brilliant reasoning.
- 2 · What came before ~3 min
- 3 · The key idea ~9 min Take an existing mid-sized model and specialize it for reliable execution, using data from tasks that really ran, then merge separately trained skills into one model.
- 4 · Choose your own research ~3 min
- 5 · Build the method ~8 min Build runnable graded tasks, record exact replayable long runs across agent setups, train two experts in stages, then merge them into one model.
- 6 · The experiment ~7 min You’ll guess: Across four representative benchmarks, where did Occamy-1.0 land on the observed cost against performance Pareto frontier?
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