If you’ve been following the open-source LLM space, you’ve likely memorized the specs of Llama 3, Mixtral, and Qwen. But a new contender has been quietly gaining traction in the "small model" category: .

| Benchmark | Bobbie-7B | Llama-3-8B | Mistral-7B | |-----------|-----------|------------|------------| | MMLU (5-shot) | 64.2 | 66.7 | 63.9 | | GSM8K (8-shot) | 52.8 | 54.9 | 50.3 | | HumanEval (pass@1) | 32.5 | 34.2 | 31.8 | | | 82.3 | 67.1 | 71.4 | | Inference tokens/sec | 98 | 72 | 88 |

Published: April 13, 2026 | Reading time: 10 minutes

| Stage | Dataset | Tokens | Purpose | |-------|---------|--------|---------| | 1 | RedPajama (v2) | 1.2T | Base language modeling | | 2 | SlimPajama + CodeAlpaca | 400B | Code & reasoning | | 3 | Synthetic multi-turn chat | 50B | Instruction following |