Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost

Samaya AI released Sterling, a post-trained Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model with 3B active parameters built for financial research, which scores 58.9% on the FrontierFinance benchmark at $0.61 per question. That beats Claude Fable 5.1's 55.9% on FrontierFinance at $6.89 per question, an 11x lower cost per question. The result positions a small post-trained finance-specific model ahead of a larger general model on a domain benchmark at a fraction of the inference price.