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Tether AI Research introduces BotPsy for on-device tool use
BotPsy is a 0.8B-parameter model designed for people building on-device assistants that use tools.
What we checked
Every claim below was walked down the source ladder. The rung is how close the source is to the thing itself; the tense is the source's own.
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announced L1 · first-party
BotPsy is built on Qwen3.5-0.8B.
per Hugging Face blog (L1) -
announced L1 · first-party
BotPsy is designed for function calling and agentic workflows.
per Hugging Face blog (L1) -
announced L1 · first-party
BotPsy is best suited to tasks of low to medium difficulty.
per Hugging Face blog (L1) -
announced L1 · first-party
BotPsy is not intended for high-stakes use.
per Hugging Face blog (L1)
Not confirmed
Independent benchmark results and privacy guarantees are not established.
Who should wait
People considering high-stakes uses should wait; the developer says BotPsy makes mistakes and is not intended for them.
Sources
- BotPsy: On-Device Personal Assistant with a Sub-Billion-Parameter Agentic Language Model — Hugging Face blog L1 · first-party