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Hugging Face’s SmolLM models bring powerful AI to your phone, no cloud required

Hugging Face's SmolLM transforms AI with compact, powerful language models that outperform tech giants, bringing advanced capabilities to personal devices without compromising privacy or performance.

Hugging Face today unveiled SmolLM, a new family of compact language models that surpass similar offerings from Microsoft, Meta, and Alibaba’s Qwen in performance. Loubna Ben Allal, lead ML engineer on SmolLM at Hugging Face, emphasized the efficacy of targeted, compact models in an interview with VentureBeat. “From personalized autocomplete features to parsing complex user requests, SmolLM enables custom AI applications without the need for expensive GPUs or cloud infrastructure.

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