[jbellis]

FWIW -- Granite r2 small is a 30M model, still small enough to run on CPU, and a good baseline for fine tunes.

[soycaporal]

awesome, noted, looking for capable teacher models to distill other architectures

[jbellis]

voyage 4 nano is sota at the next size up

and if you really want the best teacher models it's probably the voyage commercial APIs