2 September 2026

Qwen model trained on 1,928 work tasks, performance improved 70%

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  • Mercor and SkyRL companies took Qwen3.5-397B-A17B model, a large language model with 397 billion parameters, and trained it on 1,928 different knowledge work tasks like analysis and writing.
  • The trained model's APEX-Agents Pass@1 score, a measure of how often it completes tasks correctly on first try, increased by 70 percent.

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