ModelBest Releases MiniCPM5-2B Edge AI Model

Chinese AI startup ModelBest, in collaboration with the OpenBMB open-source community, has released MiniCPM5-2B, a 2-billion-parameter open-source language model designed for edge devices. The model natively supports tool calling, deep search, code generation, and multi-step reasoning, enabling general-purpose agentic capabilities on resource-constrained hardware. It ranks #1 on the Intelligence Index among open-source models under 4 billion parameters, according to Artificial Analysis, and scores 20 on the Agentic Index. ModelBest has open-sourced the full-stack technical suite, including datasets, training recipes, and reinforcement learning infrastructure, to foster reproducibility. The model aims to shift advanced AI from centralized clouds to edge devices, enhancing privacy, reducing latency, and cutting cloud API costs. Downloads across the MiniCPM family have surpassed 50 million.