Is Gargi state of the art?Pending benchmarks.Announced Oct 17, 2026; no independent results yet.
Udgam Labs' 384M-parameter English language model, trained from scratch on about 17 billion tokens, with optional step-by-step thinking. Trained at 32K context with reliable recall up to about 16K tokens. Apache-2.0, with GGUF and MLX builds for Ollama, llama.cpp and Apple silicon.
The details so far
- Lab
- Udgam Labs
- Announced
- Oct 17, 2026
- API
- Not yet
- Open weights
- Published
- Parameters
- 384M
- Architecture
- Gemma 4-style decoder, sliding-window plus global attention
- Training
- Trained from scratch on about 17B tokens of openly licensed or public-domain text plus synthetic text from open models
- Context
- Trained at 32K tokens; Udgam advises inputs up to about 16K
- Modes
- Thinking on (step-by-step reasoning before the answer) or off
- Release
- Gargi (chat) and Gargi-Base on Hugging Face, plus GGUF (Q8_0 410 MB, Q4_K_M 238 MB) and MLX builds; runs in Ollama and llama.cpp
- Language
- English
- License
- Apache-2.0 (weights and tokenizer)
Tags marked unsure are not stated on the lab's own pages.
What would let us call it
Verdicts use only independent boards we already track. Two consecutive snapshots are required before any crown.
- Publicly announced with a source
- Usable by the public (API or weights)
- Listed on an independent board we track
- Enough results for a rank in a category
- Holds across two snapshots (crowns only)
What the lab claims
Self-reported. Shown for context; not used in any verdict.
Lab claim: Gargi-Base scores 62.8 ARC-Easy, 32.3 ARC-Challenge and 54.6 WinoGrande against 64.7, 32.4 and 56.1 for Qwen2.5-0.5B in the same harness; clearly behind on MMLU (25.5), HellaSwag and PIQA.
Lab claim: GSM8K 36.0 with thinking on, 32.9 with thinking off (0-shot, chat template).
Lab claim: needle-in-a-haystack recall 100% at 8K, 93% at 16K, 90% at 20K and 0% at 32K tokens.
Lab claim: not safety-tuned beyond a small set of refusal examples.
Sources
LABGargi release post (Udgam Labs blog)udgamlabs.com/blog/gargi · Oct 17, 2026LABGargi model page (Udgam Labs)udgamlabs.com/models/gargi · Oct 17, 2026REPOudgamlabs/Gargi model card (Hugging Face)huggingface.co/udgamlabs/GargiREPOudgamlabs/gargi (GitHub)github.com/udgamlabs/gargiTracking continues until an independent board lists it.