Small-Model on Best of AI

BTLM-3B

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BTLM-3B-8K is a 3 billion parameter language model that Cerebras built with the Opentensor Foundation and trained on Cerebras’ wafer-scale CS-2 systems. Announced in the summer of 2023, it was designed for a specific goal: match the quality of 7 billion parameter models while staying small enough to run on phones and low-memory devices. Cerebras reports that BTLM-3B, once quantized, fits in around 3GB of memory and runs on hardware like the iPhone, Google Pixel, and even a Raspberry Pi, while performing in line with contemporary 7B models such as RedPajama-INCITE-7B on common benchmarks.

Command R7B

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Command R7B is the smallest model in Cohere’s R series, released in December 2024 as what the company called the final entry in that lineup. At 7 billion parameters it is built to run on cheap hardware, including CPUs and single GPUs, while still handling retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, and reasoning tasks that Cohere’s larger models were designed for. It topped the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard among similarly sized open-weight models at launch, beating Gemma 2 9B, Ministral 8B, and Llama 3.1 8B on average across benchmarks including MMLU, IFEval, and GPQA. The model keeps the same 128,000-token context window as its bigger siblings and is priced far below them, making it a fit for high-volume, latency-sensitive applications rather than frontier-level tasks.

DistilBERT

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Falcon 3

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Falcon 7B

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Gemini Nano

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Gemma 3

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GPT-OSS-20B

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Llama 3.1 8B

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MiniCPM

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MiniCPM-V

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Ministral 8B

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Mistral 7B

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Mistral Small 3

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Nemotron Nano

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Nemotron-3 8B

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Orca-Math

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Phi-2

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Phi-3

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Phi-3-medium

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Phi-3-small

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Phi-3-vision

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Phi-3.5-mini

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Phi-4

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Phi-4-reasoning

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Reka Edge

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SantaCoder

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SmolLM

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SmolLM2

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StableLM 2

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StableLM 3B

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StableLM Zephyr

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