SmolLM2 360M Instruct

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Hugging Face · SmolLM2 · Released 2024-11

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A sub-billion-parameter model small enough to run in a browser via WebGPU, useful for constrained on-device tasks rather than general chat.

Strengths

  • +Apache 2.0 license
  • +Runs in-browser and on microcontroller-class hardware
  • +Extremely low latency

Limitations

  • -Limited to simple tasks; not a general-purpose chat replacement
  • -Frequent factual errors on anything beyond basic knowledge

License

Apache 2.0

use commercially with attribution niceties

Hardware

runs on a good consumer GPU (or Apple Silicon) with quantization

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