# Lewis Tunstall says open science lifts all boats, crediting SmolLM3

> Original title: open science lifts all boats

- Source: Lewis Tunstall
- Published: 2026-10-29T09:24:21.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/c1a5htfwo7v9qzfzzope27nep
- Original: https://x.com/_lewtun/status/2115736485097771139

## Summary

Lewis Tunstall says open science lifts all boats after Albert Gu credits Hugging Face's SmolLM3 as key to a model of the target size with an open recipe and open checkpoints. Gu says no other model at that size offered both, calling the team "the GOATs."

## Post

open science lifts all boats

## Quoted post @_albertgu

> @eliebakouch honestly smollm3 was super important for this to happen - we needed a model of the target size with an open recipe and open checkpoints and I think there was nothing else. yall are the 🐐s

https://x.com/_albertgu/status/2115552016361799746