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Friday, 9 October 2026

Meet the Underdog Saluki 27B: A 2-bit Qwen3.8-27B That Beats the Original at Tool Calling

MarkTechPost 5 days ago 41

Underdog released Saluki 27B, a 2-bit GGUF version of Qwen3.8-27B designed for on-device agent tool calling under an Apache 2.0 license. It shrinks storage to 7.89 GB versus 54 GB for the full BF16 model while reporting 42 versus 35 parallel tool calls. The compression targets tool-use performance, so tool-calling improves relative to the full model while math and multi-step reasoning drop by about 12 to 18 points.

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