# Samaya AI Releases Sterling: A 3B-Active Finance Research Agent Model that Beats Claude Fable 5.1 on FrontierFinance at 11x Lower Cost

> **Publication**: aitalky (Independent AI Journalism)
> **Canonical Citation URL**: https://aitalky.vercel.app/news/samaya-ai-releases-sterling-a-3b-active-finance-research-agent-model-that-beats
> **Original Source**: [MarkTechPost](https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/30/samaya-sterling-post-trained-finance-research-model-frontierfinance/)
> **Author**: Asif Razzaq (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Friday, October 30, 2026
> **Category**: RESEARCH
> **Tags**: AI, MarkTechPost, research

## Executive Summary
Samaya AI's Sterling is a post-trained Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model for financial research. It scores 58.9% on FrontierFinance at $0.61 per question, beating Claude Fable 5.1's 55.9% at $6.89



## Full Coverage
Samaya AI's Sterling is a post-trained Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model for financial research. It scores 58.9% on FrontierFinance at $0.61 per question, beating Claude Fable 5.1's 55.9% at $6.89

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