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Limite reports high AIME performance with reduced compute

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The newsletter reports that the one-billion-parameter Limite model achieved 94% on AIME using 10–1,000 times less compute, with eight people working for six weeks.

Reported metric: 1B; 94%; 10-1,000x; eight people; six weeks

Reporting date: 2026-09-22 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to September 22, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the September 22 issue (paradigma.inc)

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Limite reports high AIME performance with reduced compute
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-09-22
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-09-22-limite-efficiency
Claim: The newsletter reports that the one-billion-parameter Limite model achieved 94% on AIME using 10–1,000 times less compute, with eight people working for six weeks.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to September 22, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-september-22-2026
- Source linked by the September 22 issue — https://paradigma.inc/blog/limite-1b-violetto/
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