@eliebakouch
today is my last day at hugging face feeling really grateful to have worked with such an amazing team and learned so much along the way. i’m proud of what we accomplished together, especially the smollm series. building that project from scratch, putting so much into it, and getting to iterate on a model and training recipe that pushed the frontier for its size was really rewarding i hope i was able to play a part in making model training more accessible and in pushing the open model ecosystem forward. i’m also very thankful to hf for giving me the chance to share my passion for llm research, especially here, and to connect with so many awesome people things can get quite intense in this field, but i’m still very excited about the next challenges and about the good this technology can do but first, taking a few weeks break :)