Agent A1: New Free Local Chinese Agentic Model (35B MoE) + Benchmarks, Speed & Setup
The video reviews Agent A1, a newly released free Chinese local model designed for agentic tasks, showing it running privately and offline inside an Agent Factory workflow alongside free Claude code. The host demos outputs like a landing page, a neon snake game, a “Dragon Realm” open-world game, a keyboard mini app, and a 3D solar system visualization, noting fast replies and that builds save to a workspace with optional voice control. Agent A1 is a 35B mixture-of-experts model (3B active) with a 256k context window, created by Intern Science in Shanghai and optimized for long-horizon search, engineering, scientific research, instruction following, and tool calling. It ranks #2 on the creator’s local leaderboard, outperforming Gemma 4 but trailing Qwable, and is reported around 95 tokens/sec locally on a Mac Studio M4. The video explains strengths/weaknesses, shows running via Ollama and configuring Hermes profiles, and promotes an Agent OS bundle plus OmniRoute routing across 90 free models.
00:00 Meet Agent A1
00:31 Live Local Build Demo
00:53 Leaderboard And Examples
01:36 What A1 Actually Is
02:29 Benchmarks Breakdown
03:08 More Builds In Action
03:45 Specs Speed And Context
04:40 How To Run Locally
04:43 Strengths And Weaknesses
05:41 Hermes Setup Steps
06:13 Agent OS And OmniRoute
06:51 Get The Full Setup
07:34 Wrap Up