14 stories tagged small-language-models, newest first.
264 points by gmays | 74 comments
Blog post from Strands Agents announcing Strands Decider 2B, a small open-source decision model for fast experimentation and local development.
538 points by firelex | 205 comments
GitHub repository for Jeff, a project that fine-tunes Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 small models for fast zero-shot classification decisions.
271 points by logicallee | 99 comments
MicroLLM Lab is a browser-based tool for running, chatting with, and benchmarking small quantized language models locally via WebGPU with no server.
741 points by tosh | 322 comments
Blog post by Calvin French-Owen arguing small models have arrived, describing his experience with the fast, cheap gpt-5.6-luna model and comparing model cost/performance.
501 points by HenryNdubuaku | 169 comments
Product page for Cactus Needle 2, an open 14MB agentic LLM for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction on phones, wearables, and tiny devices.
415 points by moonikakiss | 114 comments
Neon blog post describing how a 4B open-source model post-trained with Castform matches GPT-5.6 Sol on search-result retrieval accuracy at about 100x lower cost.
357 points by timhigins | 185 comments
arXiv technical report introducing VibeThinker-3B, a 3B-parameter dense model trained with curriculum SFT, multi-domain RL, and self-distillation for verifiable reasoning.
712 points by HenryNdubuaku | 206 comments
GitHub repository for Needle, an MIT-licensed 26M-parameter function-calling model distilled from Gemini, designed to run on phones and other small devices.
827 points by armanified | 125 comments
GitHub repository for GuppyLM, a ~9M parameter transformer language model built from scratch in PyTorch that talks like a small fish.
475 points by meetpateltech | 193 comments
Google Developers Blog post announcing Gemma 3 270M, a compact open model designed for hyper-efficient, task-specific AI.
356 points by kashifr | 71 comments
Hugging Face blog post announcing SmolLM3, a small multilingual, long-context reasoning language model, published July 8, 2025.
525 points by prettyblocks | 271 comments
Ask HN thread asking what people have built with tiny 0.5B–3B parameter language models, such as those available on Ollama.
399 points by lappa | 136 comments
Microsoft AI Platform Blog post announcing Phi-4, a small language model specializing in complex reasoning.
535 points by rbanffy | 302 comments
A Nature technology feature on why researchers are running small, openly available AI models locally on laptops, with guidance on getting started.