August 16, 2026

Researchers trained an open source AI search agent, Harness-1, that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recalling relevant information

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A joint research collaboration between researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), UC Berkeley, and the open source AI-native vector database platform Chroma unveiled Harness-1, a 20-billion parameter open-source search agen...