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VibeThinker-3B: Exploring the Frontier of Verifiable Reasoning in Small Language Models — mentioned by msdz

Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:57:06 GMT

Great article, even if it will be interesting to see whether things continue to develop in such a direction or not. > There's a version of this future where the model card stops listing a knowledge cutoff at all, because what's left in the weights goes stale on a scale of years instead of weeks. Future? Even just recently I’ve read of two approaches to this problem: Cactus have come up with Needle [0][1], which is their tool-calling focused 14 MB model (still an LLM!) – no world knowledge engrained. And instead of say, tool call structure, VibeThinker [2][3] focuses on reasoning over world…

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VibeThinker-3B: Exploring the Frontier of Verifiable Reasoning in Small Language Models — HN submission

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:01:25 GMT

VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO

398 points; 205 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

VibeThinker-3B: Exploring the Frontier of Verifiable Reasoning in Small Language Models — mentioned by moondistance

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:09:11 GMT

Paper: https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.16140

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VibeThinker-3B: Exploring the Frontier of Verifiable Reasoning in Small Language Models — HN submission

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:18:13 GMT

VibeThinker-3B: Exploring the Frontier of Verifiable Reasoning in Small LLMs

6 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.