Great work by Chroma training a search agent with SoTA efficiency. Lots of cool details: a prune tool for editing context mid-search, a synthetic data pipeline with verification steps, and a curriculum that shifts from recall to precision. Trained with Tinker!
Introducing Chroma Context-1, a 20B parameter search agent.
> pushes the pareto frontier of agentic search
> order of magnitude faster
> order of magnitude cheaper
> Apache 2.0, open-source