# Here's how this 35B competes with Frontier models

**Published:** September 21, 2026
**Author:** David Ondrej
**Source:** YouTube — David Ondrej (AI Agents)
**Language:** en-US
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This 35B model is near frontier on multiple different benchmarks. It's called Apodex 1.1 mini and it achieves this by using frontier agent, a new open-source harness. Now, here's what I learned from studying frontier agent. The agents run like a research team. You give it a task…

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