MiniCPM5 1B - what is it?

In three linesMiniCPM5 1B is a new compact language model from OpenBMB. Unlike MiniCPM 4.6 (based on Qwen 3.5 0.8B), it appears to be built from scratch with its own tokenizer and no vision capabilities. Users report different behavior patterns compared to other small models.

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