Agnes opens a 33B multimodal preview

Agnes AI released a 33B-parameter open-weight multimodal preview with a 262,144-token context window under Apache 2.0, according to its Hugging Face model card. Its hybrid decoder uses 54 delta-rule recurrent layers and 18 global-attention layers, so only 18 layers carry a context-growing KV cache; the bf16 checkpoint is about 66 GB and fits on one H200 or H100. Builders should treat this as a local long-context option to benchmark—not a production shortcut: Agnes says its separate API checkpoint has a 1M-token context, so validate the preview against open-weight adoption’s demand-side denominator before committing hardware.