Apodex 1.1: Scaling Agentic Intelligence for Complex Work

2026-08-24Artificial Intelligence

Artificial IntelligenceComputation and LanguageMachine Learning
AI summary

The authors present Apodex 1.1, a language model system designed to handle complex tasks that need ongoing interaction with files, data, and code, while keeping track of progress and recovering from errors. They improve Apodex by expanding the types of environments it works in and training it to break down big tasks, share work among agents, and adjust plans as needed. A shared system keeps track of work steps and results to ensure reliability. Apodex 1.1 performs well on professional and scientific tasks, even with fewer parameters than other top models, and a smaller version runs locally. The authors aim to create a tool that reliably completes long, complicated tasks over time.

language modelsenvironment scalingagent coordinationtask decompositionstate maintenanceprovenance trackinglong-horizon tasksexecutable codemodel parameterslocal deployment
Authors
Apodex Team, B. An, B. Li, B. Wang, B. Zhang, B. L. Wang, C. Feng, C. Wei, C. Xue, C. Zhang, D. Ng, D. Ye, E. Min, F. Chen, F. Liu, F. Yang, F. Ye, H. Xu, H. Yang, H. Ye, H. Zhang, H. Zhao, J. Li, J. Lin, J. Xia, K. Jin, K. Wang, K. Yang, L. Bing, L. Lei, L. Su, Le. Wang, Lu. Wang, N. Wang, Q. Ren, Q. Yang, R. Li, S. Bai, S. Du, S. Li, S. Lin, S. Nie, S. Wang, S. Zhang, S. Z. Wang, Ta. Q. Fang, Ti. Q. Fang, W. Fang, W. Li, W. Zhang, X. Chen, X. Li, X. Tang, X. Wang, X. Xu, X. Zhang, X. Q. Wang, X. Y. Wang, Y. Deng, Y. Gao, Y. Hu, Y. Li, Y. Sui, Y. Wang, Y. Xiao, Y. Zhang, Z. Chen, Z. Cheng, Z. Feng, Z. Liang, Z. Zhang
Abstract
General-purpose language models can reason and synthesize knowledge, but complex work also requires sustained interaction with files, information sources, and executable code, together with state maintenance, failure recovery, and verifiable delivery. We call this \emph{working capability}: sustained, verifiable progress toward a real-world objective. Apodex 1.1 develops this capability along two complementary dimensions. \emph{Environment Scaling} expands the diversity and verifiability of executable file, search, and code environments, while \emph{Agentic Coordination Scaling} trains agents to decompose long-horizon tasks, delegate parallel work, integrate asynchronous results, and replan. A shared execution harness and AgentOS maintain task state and provenance across tools and agents, and training turns environment trajectories and coordination traces into reliable behavior. Across complex professional work, finance, scientific research, mathematics, coding, and search, Apodex 1.1 reaches the leading performance band despite using a substantially smaller model than many frontier systems. The 35B-parameter Apodex 1.1 Mini further retains strong working capability in a locally deployable form. These results ground agentic intelligence in useful, verifiable work completed over time and advance our goal of building a \emph{Heavy-Duty Solver} for ambitious, long-running tasks.