Tether AI Research announced the release of QVAC BotPsy-0.8B on November 11, 2026, an open-weight, 0.8-billion-parameter model for tool calls on personal devices, and reported that it outperformed every tested model of up to 1.2 billion parameters across six agentic benchmarks. Built on Alibaba’s Qwen3.5-0.8B, BotPsy specializes in function calling and multi-step agentic workflows for local deployment. Its target tasks span calendars, messaging, files, device settings, web research, travel…