@jandotai
Meet Jan-v1-edge: an experimental 1.7B distilled model for Perplexity-style search. Jan-v1-edge is our lightweight distillation experiment, derived from Jan v1. We're testing how well web search and reasoning can transfer into a smaller 1.7B parameter model that runs on edge devices. Performance - 83% SimpleQA accuracy, close to Jan-nano-128k while being lighter - Outperforms Qwen3-1.7B Thinking on SimpleQA To experiment with it, find the GGUF model on @huggingface, click Use this model and select Jan. To enable search in Jan: go to Settings -> MCP Servers -> enable or add a search-related MCP (SearXNG, Serper, Exa, etc.). - Jan-v1-edge: https://t.co/SgHEcdqpQi - Jan-v1-edge GGUF: https://t.co/rnAyvFBNzA Credit to the @Alibaba_Qwen team for Qwen3-1.7B Thinking and @ggerganov for llama.cpp.