{"slug": "samaya-ai-releases-sterling-a-3b-active-finance-research-agent-model-that-beats", "title": "Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "Samaya AI’s Sterling is a post-trained Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model for financial research. It scores 58.9% on FrontierFinance at $0.61 per question, beating Claude Fable 5.1’s 55.9% at $6.89.\n\nThe post [Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/30/samaya-sterling-post-trained-finance-research-model-frontierfinance/) appeared first on [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/samaya-ai-releases-sterling-a-3b-active-finance-research-agent-model-that-beats", "canonical_source": "https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/30/samaya-sterling-post-trained-finance-research-model-frontierfinance/", "published_at": "2026-10-30 07:26:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-30 09:48:23.941318+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-agents", "ai-research", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Samaya AI", "Sterling", "Nemotron 3.5 Lightning", "Claude Fable 5.1", "FrontierFinance", "MarkTechPost"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/samaya-ai-releases-sterling-a-3b-active-finance-research-agent-model-that-beats", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/samaya-ai-releases-sterling-a-3b-active-finance-research-agent-model-that-beats.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/samaya-ai-releases-sterling-a-3b-active-finance-research-agent-model-that-beats.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/samaya-ai-releases-sterling-a-3b-active-finance-research-agent-model-that-beats.jsonld"}}