
SmolLM3: A Powerful 3B Multilingual Model with Long-Context Reasoning
Introducing SmolLM3: Small, Efficient, and Highly Capable The AI community continues to push the boundaries of small language models (SLMs), proving that bigger isn’t always better. Today, we’re excited to introduce SmolLM3, a 3B-parameter model that outperforms competitors like Llama-3.2-3B and Qwen2.5-3B while rivaling larger 4B models (Qwen3 & Gemma3). What makes SmolLM3 special? ✅ Multilingual (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese) ✅ 128K long-context support (via NoPE +…