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New Steady (+4.9 in 6 h) incomplete: Builders Forum top threads is stale Demo event

Introducing Orchard 3: open-weight models in three sizes

Orchard Labs releases three model sizes under an open-weight licence, with a technical report and an evaluation suite. The smallest is designed to run on a laptop.

Heat at demo clock
33.9
Independent sources
5
Reports
6 + 1 dropped
First seen
Last report
In briefings
Thu 12 Mar

Timeline and provenance

Every report on this event, oldest first. All times UTC.

  1. First report

    Introducing Orchard 3: open-weight models in three sizes

    Orchard Labs Blog Official, tier 1

    Orchard Labs releases three model sizes under an open-weight licence, with a technical report and an evaluation suite. The smallest is designed to run on a laptop.

    Demo report: no original link exists.

  2. Coverage

    Orchard Labs releases Orchard 3 open-weight model family

    Signal Wire Press, tier 2

    The release includes three sizes and a technical report; the company says weights are available for download today under its own licence.

    Demo report: no original link exists.

    Duplicate dropped: Signal Wire filed the same item again at 11 Mar, 14:55.

  3. Syndicated copy

    Orchard Labs releases Orchard 3 open-weight model family

    Relay Daily Aggregator, tier 3

    The release includes three sizes and a technical report; the company says weights are available for download today under its own licence.

    Demo report: no original link exists.

    Copy of the Signal Wire report at 11 Mar, 14:40; not an independent source.

  4. Coverage

    Hands-on: Orchard 3's smallest model runs on a laptop, slowly

    Circuit Review Press, tier 2

    In our tests the small model answered simple questions offline at a usable pace; longer documents were slow and memory-hungry.

    Demo report: no original link exists.

  5. Coverage

    Orchard 3 thread: licence terms and benchmark claims

    Builders Forum top threads Community, tier 3

    Posters compare the licence with earlier releases and ask whether the reported scores used ReasonBench items now under review.

    Demo report: no original link exists.

  6. Coverage

    Orchard 3 licence clarified: commercial use allowed below a user threshold

    Gradient Gazette Press, tier 2

    Orchard Labs told the Gazette that companies under the licence's user threshold need no separate agreement.

    Demo report: no original link exists.

How the heat adds up

10 × 0.5age / 24 h per independent source, newest report only, within 48 h.

At the demo clock, 12 Mar, 09:00 UTC.
SourceReportAgeWeightPointsWhy
Orchard Labs Blog11 Mar, 14:0019 h0.5785.78counted
Signal Wire11 Mar, 14:4018.3 h0.5895.89counted
Relay Daily11 Mar, 15:1017.8 h–0.00syndicated copy: not an independent source
Circuit Review11 Mar, 16:3016.5 h0.6216.21counted
Builders Forum top threads11 Mar, 18:0015 h0.6486.48counted
Gradient Gazette12 Mar, 07:301.5 h0.9589.58counted
Total33.95 sources counted

6 hours earlier, at 12 Mar, 03:00 UTC, the heat was 29.0, so the trend is steady (+4.9). How trends are labelled

Why these reports are one event

Joined when similarity reaches 0.35: 0.6 × shared entities + 0.4 × shared wording, and at least one shared entity.

ReportDecisionEvidence
Orchard Labs Blog, 11 Mar, 14:00newStarted this event: no open event scored above the threshold.
Signal Wire, 11 Mar, 14:40joinedScore 0.763 against the Orchard Labs Blog report: entities 1.00, wording 0.41. Shared: Orchard 3, Orchard Labs.
Relay Daily, 11 Mar, 15:10syndicatedIdentical text to an earlier report from another source; attached as a copy.
Circuit Review, 11 Mar, 16:30joinedScore 0.646 against the Orchard Labs Blog report: entities 1.00, wording 0.11. Shared: Orchard 3, Orchard Labs.
Builders Forum top threads, 11 Mar, 18:00joinedScore 0.434 against the Orchard Labs Blog report: entities 0.67, wording 0.09. Shared: Orchard 3, Orchard Labs. Closest other event: ReasonBench v2: test items found in public training data; scores under review at 0.283.
Gradient Gazette, 12 Mar, 07:30joinedScore 0.637 against the Orchard Labs Blog report: entities 1.00, wording 0.09. Shared: Orchard 3, Orchard Labs.

Named in this event

Orchard Labs, Orchard 3, ReasonBench