Free 35B AI Does Your Multi-Step Office Chores Cheaply

A team of 43 researchers has published Occamy-1.0, an AI model you can download and run for free. It's built for "co-work" — the dull, multi-step stuff: looking things up, clicking through software tools, writing small bits of code, and moving files around. Think of it as a tireless assistant that can follow a five-part instruction without forgetting step two. The team built it on top of an existing open model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B) and trained it specifically on long, realistic work tasks.

Why should you care? Because AI costs add up per step, not per question. A job that takes twenty AI actions costs twenty times more than a single question. Occamy-1.0 is designed to sit at the sweet spot where performance is good but each step is cheap — the researchers call it the "low-cost knee" of the price-versus-power curve. And since the model's weights are free to download, companies can run it on their own computers, keeping sensitive data private instead of shipping it to a subscription service.

It handles tool use, coding, and following instructions well, and the team released the training data too. But be realistic about the catch: this is a mid-size model, so on the hardest brain-teaser tasks it won't beat the biggest paid systems. It's also a research paper release — no polished app, no customer support. Unless you're technical, you'd use it through a hosting company that rents out AI capacity.

The practical takeaway: capable AI is getting cheaper and more open. Small businesses, freelancers, and teams drowning in repetitive paperwork are the likely winners. As always, check the output before trusting it with anything that matters.