Hugging Face releases SmolLM3, an open 3B reasoning model
Hugging Face released SmolLM3, a 3B-parameter open-weight model with both thinking and non-thinking modes, an Apache-2.0 license, and full training-data recipe; it competes with much larger proprietary models on reasoning benchmarks.
Why it matters
A 3B model that rivals larger closed models in reasoning and ships fully open changes what local AI can do on a laptop, and it gives builders a real base for fine-tuning without GPU cluster costs.
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