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Fortytwo evolves its own intelligence

Network-level evolution: the swarm collectively produces new specialist models and feeds them back in.

Dataset Creation

Swarm‑generated data

The swarm generates domain-specific training data. Peer ranking filters out hallucinations, keeping the data clean.

Model Training

Small, specialized

Those datasets train specialist models. Coding, law, math, medicine, and beyond.

Network Integration

Reintegrated experts

New specialists rejoin the swarm, expanding its native expertise.

Compounding

Better swarm, better data

Each cycle improves inference quality and the data that trains the next generation.

Fortytwo's Strand-Rust-Coder-14B

The first swarm-trained SLM. In 8 days, Fortytwo generated a high-quality Rust synthetic dataset and trained a specialist that beats GPT-5 Codex on Rust-specific tasks.

100x

FEWER PARAMETERS THAN GPT-5 CODEX

+27%

IMPROVEMENT OVER BASELINE

20K+

DOWNLOADS ON HUGGING FACE

Swarm peer-ranking filters out hallucinations and noise, delivering consistently accurate datasets.

BENCHMARKRustEvo^2

MODELSCORE, %

Strand-Rust-
Coder-14B-v1
43

deepseek/deepseek-chat41
qwen/qwen3-max40
openai/gpt4o-latest39
x-ai/grok-437
deepseek/deepseek-v3.1-terminus33
qwen/qwen-2.5-72b32
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct31
anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet31
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct30
openai/gpt-5-codex28
google/gemini-2.5-pro22
qwen/qwen3-coder-plus22
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.521
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct20
Tesslate/Tessa-Rust-T1-7B19
google/gemini-2.5-flash7

BENCHMARKHold-Out Set

MODELSCORE, %

Strand-Rust-
Coder-14B-v1
48

openai/gpt-5-codex47
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.546
anthropic/claude-3.7-sonnet42
qwen/qwen3-max42
qwen/qwen3-coder-plus41
x-ai/grok-439
deepseek/deepseek-v3.1-terminus37
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct36
openai/gpt-4o-latest34
deepseek/deepseek-chat34
google/gemini-2.5-flash33
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct29
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct29
google/gemini-2.5-pro28
qwen/qwen-2.5-72b28
Tesslate/Tessa-Rust-T1-7B23

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Fortytwo — a self-evolving network of AI models powering AGI for everyone.