# Lewis Tunstall asks whether to scale Carbon-X's 14B recipe to 100B+ parameters

> Original title: And this is just a 14B model. Should we scale the recipe to 100B+ parameters?

- Source: Lewis Tunstall
- Published: 2026-10-27T16:27:25.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/ch8i0dxz9ozf2mb1k15ciyr8m
- Original: https://x.com/_lewtun/status/2115118179890679899

## Summary

Lewis Tunstall of Hugging Face asks whether the recipe behind the 14B-parameter Carbon-X model should be scaled to 100B+ parameters. The post builds on a Hugging Face Bio announcement describing Carbon-X as fluent in English and DNA, and the model is available on Hugging Face.

## Post

And this is just a 14B model. Should we scale the recipe to 100B+ parameters?

## Quoted post @lvwerra

> Carbon-X is the first model achieving frontier intelligence on DNA understanding!
> 
> It is fluent in both English and DNA so you can chat to DNA!
> 
> Biology and DNA understanding will have a huge impact and be the main focus of the frontier labs.
> 
> Model: https://huggingface.co/HuggingFaceBio/Carbon-X

https://x.com/lvwerra/status/2115115572145111194