# ZGCM-1: A Fully Open and Extremely Efficient Foundation Model for Math and Agentic Search

**Published:** September 15, 2026
**Author:** Jiyan He, Guang Liang, Hao Liu, Haoxiang Guan, Jinbo Sun, Junyi Guo, Wenjun Feng, Yantai Xie, Yifei Shen, Bin Shao, Chuyang Wei, Kai Chen, Kexin Zhou, Minghang Zhu, Shuxin Zheng, Tie-Yan Liu, Taine Zhao, Wenhui Zhu, Xueyin Xu, Xiaoqing Zhang, Yatao Li, Yuxuan Ren
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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In this work, we present ZGCM-1, a fully open 7B dense foundation model trained from scratch with extreme data, system, and algorithmic efficiency. ZGCM-1 is founded on a core premise: compact models cannot passively memorize the open web, but can overcome parametric capacity…

> From the original source: **arXiv — cs.AI**
> [Read full article at arXiv — cs.AI](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13356)

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