SAGE Celer 2.6 Technical Card
arXiv cs.AI / 4/17/2026
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Key Points
- SAGEA has introduced SAGE Celer 2.6, a new general-purpose Celer model available in 5B, 10B, and 27B parameter sizes.
- The model incorporates extensive architectural changes and additional pre-training on an undisclosed model, aiming to improve overall reasoning quality.
- SAGEA claims that its Inverse Reasoning (IR) pipeline helps the model validate its own logic paths to reduce cascading errors and hallucinations on complex reasoning tasks.
- SAGE Celer 2.6 includes native multimodal capabilities with an end-to-end vision encoder, and it is optimized for South Asian languages via a custom Devanagari tokenizer, emphasizing strong Nepali and Hindi performance while maintaining English reasoning ability.
- The announcement reports competitive results on mathematics, coding, and general intelligence benchmarks (ACUMEN) with low latency.



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