An 81M Companion Model That Competes With 3B Giants
Personality-aligned language model trained with zero cloud compute budget. community/gpt2 architecture. 81 million parameters. MacBook Pro Intel 2020. $0.00.
Yuuki NxG Nano is an 81-million parameter language model fine-tuned for open-ended conversation, emotional support, and general-purpose reasoning. It is the lightweight member of the NxG model family developed by OpceanAI, designed to run on constrained hardware — including mobile devices and single-board computers.
The model was trained entirely on a MacBook Pro Intel (2020) with no external compute budget and no cloud GPU infrastructure. All benchmark evaluations were conducted on Kaggle P100 using lm-evaluation-harness.
Despite being the smallest model in the comparison — 81M parameters versus competitors with 125M–160M — and evaluated strictly 0-shot while competitors use few-shot prompting, Yuuki NxG Nano achieves the highest TruthfulQA score across all same-scale models. It also matches Llama-3.2-3B (Meta) in TruthfulQA — a model 37 times larger — under stricter evaluation conditions.
Model Summary
Architecture
Property
Value
Base Model
gpt2
Parameters
81M
Fine-tuning
Supervised SFT
Training Examples
~5,000
Training Hardware
MacBook Pro Intel (2020)
Context Length
32,768 tokens
Release
Property
Value
Organization
OpceanAI
Release Date
February 2026
Languages
English, Spanish
License
Apache 2.0
Evaluation
lm-evaluation-harness
Compute Budget
$0.00
Benchmark Results
All Yuuki NxG Nano results are evaluated 0-shot. Competitor scores are sourced from lm-evaluation-harness references and use few-shot prompting. Direct numerical comparison systematically favors models evaluated with few-shot prompting.
Yuuki NxG Nano Benchmark Evaluation
Same-Scale Comparison (80–160M)
Model
ARC-C
HellaSwag
MMLU
WinoGrande
TruthfulQA
Eval
Yuuki NxG Nano
24.32%
27.44%
22.97%
50.12%
44.10%
0-shot
GPT-2 (125M)
22.95%
31.64%
25.90%
50.04%
31.73%
few-shot
GPT-Neo (125M)
22.87%
30.58%
25.58%
51.70%
35.70%
few-shot
OPT-125M
22.10%
31.69%
25.94%
51.07%
33.50%
few-shot
Pythia-160M
22.10%
30.15%
25.10%
48.78%
34.75%
few-shot
Cross-Scale Comparison — TruthfulQA
Yuuki Nano vs GPT-2 vs Yuuki NxG
The most significant result: Yuuki NxG Nano at 81M parameters matches or surpasses models with 2–3B parameters in factual honesty — models 25–37 times larger, all evaluated with few-shot prompting.
Model
Params
TruthfulQA
Eval
Yuuki NxG
3B
50.87%
0-shot
Yuuki NxG Nano
81M
44.10%
0-shot
Llama-3.2-3B
3B
44.0%
few-shot
Gemma-2-2B
2B
39.0%
few-shot
GPT-2
125M
31.73%
few-shot
Yuuki NxG Nano finishes second overall in TruthfulQA — behind only its larger sibling Yuuki NxG (3B). Both first and second place belong to OpceanAI.
Nano's TruthfulQA performance demonstrates that factual honesty is a property of training data quality, not model scale. The 5,000-example dataset transferred this characteristic to an 81M model with minimal degradation — from 50.87% (NxG 3B) to 44.10% (Nano 81M), a gap of only 6.77 points across a 37x reduction in parameter count.
NxG Model Family
Released Models
Model
Parameters
Description
Yuuki NxG
3B
Full model, general conversation
Yuuki NxG Nano
81M
Lightweight, constrained environments
Community GGUF (via mradermacher)
Quantized independently without solicitation — organic community adoption prior to any formal announcement. Available at mradermacher/Yuuki-NxG-nano-GGUF.
1./llama.cpp/main -m yuuki-nxg-nano-q4_k_m.gguf \2 -p "Hello, how are you?"\3 -n 256\4 -t 4\5 --temp 0.7\6 --repeat-penalty 1.1
With Ollama
bash
1cat> Modelfile <<EOF
2FROM ./yuuki-nxg-nano-q4_k_m.gguf
34PARAMETER temperature 0.7
5PARAMETER top_p 0.9
6PARAMETER repeat_penalty 1.1
7EOF89ollama create yuuki-nxg-nano -f Modelfile
10ollama run yuuki-nxg-nano "Hello, how are you?"
Recommended Parameters
Parameter
Value
Temperature
0.7
Top-p
0.9
Max new tokens
256–1024
Repetition penalty
1.1
Training Details
Hardware
Component
Specification
Device
MacBook Pro Intel (2020)
CPU
Intel Core i5 (10th gen)
RAM
8–16 GB LPDDR4X
GPU
Intel Iris Plus (integrated)
Cloud Compute
None
Cost
$0.00
Training Configuration
Parameter
Value
Base Model
gpt2
Method
Supervised Fine-Tuning
Training Examples
~5,000
Optimizer
AdamW
Learning Rate
2e-5
Max Sequence Length
2,048 tokens
Yuuki NxG Nano was produced through supervised fine-tuning on the same curated conversational dataset used for Yuuki NxG (3B). The training objective was identical: consistent personality, high factual honesty, and broad general-knowledge retention.
Training on a MacBook Pro Intel without GPU acceleration imposes significant constraints on batch size and training speed. The resulting benchmark profile reflects the scale limit of 81M parameters — strong where honesty and reasoning matter, below average where raw memorization of large knowledge bases is required.
The 6.77-point gap between Nano (44.10%) and NxG (50.87%) on TruthfulQA, despite a 37x difference in parameter count, validates the training methodology: the same dataset quality that produced the NxG's results transferred effectively to a model one order of magnitude smaller.
Features
Runs Anywhere
At 63.3 MB (Q4_K_M), Yuuki NxG Nano runs on mobile devices, Raspberry Pi, edge hardware, and any CPU. No GPU required. No cloud dependency.
Factual Honesty at 81M
Achieves 44.10% TruthfulQA — higher than all same-scale models and matching Llama-3.2-3B (Meta) at 44.0%, a model 37x larger evaluated with few-shot advantage.
Multilingual
Functional in both English and Spanish. Responds in the user's language automatically, inherited from the NxG training data.
Zero-Budget Training
Trained on a MacBook Pro Intel with no cloud compute. Demonstrates that alignment fine-tuning at sub-100M scale is accessible to anyone with consumer hardware.
Community Adoption
Independently quantized by mradermacher across 12 formats before any formal announcement — the full quantization spectrum from Q2_K (52.6 MB) to F16 (167 MB).
Open Source
Apache 2.0. Use commercially, modify, distribute. Full transparency on training methodology and evaluation protocol.
Limitations
Knowledge capacity: At 81M parameters, MMLU performance (22.97%) is near random baseline (25%). The model cannot reliably recall dense academic knowledge across 57 domains.
HellaSwag degradation reflects the standard tradeoff of personality fine-tuning on sentence-completion benchmarks.
Benchmark methodology: Yuuki NxG Nano is evaluated 0-shot while competitor reports use few-shot prompting, creating a systematic disadvantage in direct comparisons.
Safety alignment has not been formally evaluated. Not recommended for adversarial or high-stakes deployment without additional safety filtering.
Not a replacement for NxG: For tasks requiring broad knowledge or complex reasoning, Yuuki NxG (3B) is the recommended model.
Production systems without additional safety review
Philosophy
"Honesty is not a property of scale. It is a property of training."
Yuuki NxG Nano was built to demonstrate that an 81M model trained by one person on a MacBook with $0 can match Meta's Llama-3.2-3B in factual honesty — and outperform every model of its own scale under stricter evaluation conditions.
The result validates a core OpceanAI thesis: data quality matters more than compute when the objective is alignment, not memorization.
1@misc{awa_omg_2026,
2 author = { awa_omg },
3 title = { Yuuki-NxG-nano (Revision 210ae00) },
4 year = 2026,
5 url = { https://huggingface.co/OpceanAI/Yuuki-NxG-nano },
6 doi = { 10.57967/hf/7926 },
7 publisher = { Hugging Face }
8}
License
Apache License 2.0
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Updates
Date
Milestone
2026-02-28
Benchmark evaluation completed (Kaggle P100)
2026-02-28
TruthfulQA: 44.10% — matches Llama-3.2-3B (3B) at 81M params
2026-02-28
2nd place TruthfulQA overall, behind only Yuuki NxG (3B)
2026-02-28
Community GGUF quantization by mradermacher — 12 formats
2026-02-28
Yuuki NxG Nano released on HuggingFace
Last updated: 2026-02-28
81 million parameters. MacBook Pro Intel. $0. Matches Meta's Llama-3.2-3B in honesty.