# Is TwIL-8B SOTA?

Pending benchmarks. Announced Nov 4, 2026; no independent results yet.

As of Nov 10, 2026, TwIL-8B is pending benchmarks on isitsota: announced Nov 4, 2026, with no independent results on the boards we track yet.

webAI's 8.8B open-weight text model, post-trained from IBM Granite 4.2 8B with full supervised fine-tuning and GRPO/DAPO reinforcement learning. Ships in balanced and verbose variants. Weights under a webAI non-commercial license.

Canonical: https://isitsota.com/m/twil-8b
Last updated: 2026-11-04
Tracking since: 2026-11-04

## Announced facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Lab | webAI |
| Announced | Nov 4, 2026 |
| API | Not yet |
| Open weights | Published |
| Parameters | 8.79B (8,791,592,960) |
| Base model | ibm-granite/granite-4.2-8b (fine-tune, not trained from scratch) |
| Post-training | Full SFT, then GRPO/DAPO reinforcement learning |
| Variants | Balanced and verbose |
| Context | 131,072 tokens |
| Languages | English, text only |
| License | webAI Non-Commercial License v1.0 (base model is Apache-2.0) |
| Quantized size | Q4_K_M GGUF is 4.98 GiB |

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.

- [x] Publicly announced with a source
- [x] 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: 98.2 on MATH-500, 88.3 on AIME 2025 and 74.4 on IFBench.
- Lab claim: 81.6 on LiveCodeBench with the verbose variant.

## Sources

- LAB: [webAI TwIL-8B announcement on X](https://x.com/i/status/2118054125737070659) (2026-11-04)
- REPO: [webAI-Official/TwIL-8B on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/webAI-Official/TwIL-8B)

Tracking continues until an independent board lists it.

## Related

- Lab: [webAI](https://isitsota.com/labs/webai.md)
- All pending releases: https://isitsota.com/releases.md
- JSON: https://api.isitsota.com/v1/models/twil-8b