Show HN: Jan-nano, 4B agentic model that outperforms DeepSeek-v3-671B using MCP

4 emreckartal 0 6/17/2025, 6:05:48 AM twitter.com ↗

We’ve been experimenting with how far a tiny model can go when it’s good at calling external tools - and have just released Jan-nano, a 4 B model trained for MCP.

Jan-nano: - tops DeepSeek-V3-671B on MCP tool-use (SimpleQA 80.7%) - handles live web search and multi-step deep research - runs fully on-device (≈4GB VRAM)

Tech notes

- Base: Qwen3-4B - Fine-tuning: DAPO - We're going to release the full technical report soon

Links

- Demo tweet: https://x.com/menloresearch/status/1934809407604576559 - Model + GGUF: https://huggingface.co/collections/Menlo/jan-nano-684f6ebfe9... - Jan Beta desktop (viewer/runner): https://jan.ai/docs/desktop/beta

How to try it:

- Install Jan Beta (macOS/Win/Linux): https://jan.ai/docs/desktop/beta - Go Jan Hub and download Jan-nano (onboarding steps help you to download it) - Get your free Serper API key to test deep research & real-time web search: https://serper.dev/ - Settings -> MCP -> paste your SERPER_API_KEY (gives the model web search access).

We’re testing Jan-nano inside Jan's beta (an open-source ChatGPT alternative). Feedback on both the model and the app is very welcome.

If setup feels clunky, follow us on X for a short walkthrough video (coming soon) or join our community chat.

- X: https://x.com/menloresearch - Discord: https://discord.gg/Exe46xPMbK

Huge credit to the Qwen team for the base model.

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