Albert Gu credits Hugging Face's SmolLM3 open recipe; Lewis Tunstall says open science lifts all boats
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Albert Gu credits Hugging Face's SmolLM3 as the key model of its size offering both an open recipe and open checkpoints, according to a post on X by Lewis Tunstall.
Gu says no other model at that size offered both, calling the Hugging Face team "the GOATs."
Tunstall responded that open science lifts all boats. The post is the only report on this exchange, and it contains no benchmark results or other performance figures.
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