
H company has launched Holo4, a new series of agentic models available in 27B dense and 35B-A3B Mixture of Experts sizes. These models are trained to interact with software through multiple interfaces including GUIs, code execution, MCP, and APIs, aiming for generalist capability across diverse environments. Benchmarks show Holo4-27B scoring 61.7% on OSWorld 2.0, trailing only Opus 5.5 (81.8%) but using significantly fewer parameters. Weights are open-sourced in BF16, FP8, NVFP4, and GGUF formats, with API access available via H Models.
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