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

> Source: <https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/30/samaya-sterling-post-trained-finance-research-model-frontierfinance/>
> Published: 2026-10-30 07:26:12+00:00

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.

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