not much happened today

**Ornith-1.5** launches as a new open-weight model family with **9B dense, 35B MoE, and 397B MoE** variants under **MIT license**, featuring quantized formats like **FP8, GGUF, MLX, and NVFP4** and showcasing end-to-end **self-improvement** capabilities. Compression techniques improve accuracy and efficiency, with **Qwen3.8-27B GGUFs** using **Dynamic V3** achieving **10% higher accuracy** and…