The SLM Consortium has begun work on a safety dataset for Small Language Models, with the creation of the dataset being headed by @wayneworkman2012
The dataset will focus on refusals and redirects surrounding dangerous or extreme sexual content, designed to be shaped sized appropriately for SLMs, without significantly lowering benchmark performance.
We're excited to release BananaMind 2.1 Pico Preview!
It includes the first preview of our BananaMind 2.1 architecture! This model gets near BananaMind 2 Micro performance at half the parameters and 37.5x less tokens! Thats insane!
The current architectures includes about 500K parameters of the total 1.5M parameters in n-gram embeddings and the layer 2 is run twice.
It also includes XSA and the XSA refresh gate.
We're still going to improve the architecture in the final release.
Hello! Tomorrow, OpenCerebral will be releasing Boris-1.7-D60M-n30M โ an experimental architecture. It will be testing a new data mixture, a new tokenizer, and testing Qwen4-like n-gram embeddings.
Following this will be Boris-1.8-D60M-n30M, which will test both the n-gram embeddings AND a new architecture.
We're delaying BananaMind 2.1! When BananaMind 2.1 Lite was almost done, we benchmarked it and the results we're worse than BananaMind 2 Mini.
We're going to spend alot more time in research on tiny models and then scaling up our techniques to the actual BananaMind 2.1 models!
We're also announcing these new models: BananaMind 2.1 Coder: A 149M instruction tuned coder model trained on 75B tokens + 10B tokens of stack-v3-train. BananaMind 2.1 Pico: A 1M parameter model trained on 22B tokens of data. We also may release BananaMind 2.1 Large with around 100M parameters depending on how much compute we have.