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

Samaya AI has released Sterling, a 3B-active model built on the Nemotron 3.5 Lightning architecture designed specifically for financial research. By achieving a 58.9% score on the FrontierFinance benchmark, the model outperforms Claude Fable 5.1 while reducing inference costs by approximately 91%. This efficiency suggests a shift toward utilizing smaller, specialized models to handle complex analytical tasks at a lower price point than general-purpose frontier systems.