Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever

Multiverse Computing, a leading European AI startup based in Spain, has developed two of the smallest yet high-performing AI models, humorously named after animal brain sizes: SuperFly and ChickBrain. These models are designed to be embedded in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and run locally on smartphones, tablets, and PCs without requiring an internet connection. SuperFly, inspired by a fly’s brain, is a compressed version of Hugging Face’s SmolLM2 135 model with 94 million parameters, optimized for limited data and voice-command applications in home appliances. ChickBrain, with 3.2 billion parameters, is a compressed version of Meta’s Llama 3.1 8B model and offers advanced reasoning capabilities, outperforming the original in several benchmarks such as MMLU-Pro, Math 500, GSM8K, and GPQA Diamond. The key technology behind these models is Multiverse’s proprietary quantum-inspired compression algorithm called CompactifAI, which significantly reduces model