Axion 1.0: How ByteDance Built a Fully Open Agent Foundation Model with Just 18K Training Examples

<h1> Axion 1.0: How ByteDance Built a Fully Open Agent Foundation Model with Just 18K Training Examples </h1> <p>Building capable AI agents has historically required elaborate training pipelines — mid-training phases, direct preference optimization, on-policy distillation, and mountains of proprietary data. Axion 1.0, released on November 2, 2026 by a team from ByteDance, Duke University, the Univ

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