Tether has announced the launch of the open-weights model QVAC BotPsy-0.8B, featuring 800 million parameters. The company stated that in selected agent and tool-use benchmarks, the model outperforms certain larger-scale models and scores approximately twice as high as its base model across four major evaluations. These are Tether's own test results and do not imply leadership across all tasks, nor do they equate to a 2.5x increase in execution speed.