{"type": "article", "title": "AI Capability signal: Distilled 1B-parameter byte models eventually beat token models of the same size. Token-1B wins in the low-FLOP regime then plateaus; byt...", "publisher": "Web Pulse", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-capability-signal-distilled-1b-parameter-byte-models-eventually-beat-token-of", "original_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12303", "published": "2026-09-11T00:00:00+00:00", "accessed": "2026-09-30", "id": "ai-capability-signal-distilled-1b-parameter-byte-models-eventually-beat-token-of"}