Has anyone tried Zyphra 1 - 8B MoE?

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA / 5/7/2026

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Key Points

  • Zyphra has released ZAYA1-8B, a reasoning-focused Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with fewer than 1B active parameters at inference.
  • The model is described as optimized for “intelligence density,” aiming to deliver stronger math and reasoning performance relative to its size.
  • The announcement claims ZAYA1-8B outperforms multiple larger open-weight models on math/reasoning and is closing the gap toward DeepSeek-V3.2 and GPT-5-High when using test-time compute.
  • The post appears in a Reddit thread asking whether others have tried the model, indicating early community interest and evaluation.
  • The release is presented as a specific new event (a model release) rather than an analysis or tutorial.

https://x.com/ZyphraAI/status/2052103618145501459?s=20 Today we're releasing ZAYA1-8B, a reasoning MoE trained on

u/AMD

and optimized for intelligence density.

With <1B active params, it outperforms open-weight models many times its size on math and reasoning, closing in on DeepSeek-V3.2 and GPT-5-High with test-time compute

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