Samaya AI Releases Financial Research Model Sterling, Cost 11 Times Lower Than Claude Fable 5.1

Techub News reports that Samaya AI has released a financial research agent model named Samaya Sterling. This model is built on NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and scored 58.9% on Samaya's FrontierFinance benchmark, surpassing Claude Fable 5.1's 55.9%. The cost per question is $0.61, significantly lower than Fable 5.1's $6.89. Sterling is a model trained after LoRA, specifically designed for financial research agent tasks, capable of planning research, invoking financial tools, collecting evidence, and generating reports. Its training process includes supervised fine-tuning on synthetic trajectories, best policy selection, and both offline and online GRPO optimization. The model runs on a single H100 80GB GPU at BF16 precision, with service hardware details undisclosed. In the highest effort mode, Sterling can achieve a score of 60.6% at a cost of $1.83. (MarkTechPost)