WeiboAI Releases: VibeThinker-1.5B

ThursdAI — the weekly AI news podcast hosted by Alex Volkov — has covered one WeiboAI release so far: VibeThinker-1.5B on Nov 13, 2025. WeiboAI releases VibeThinker-1.5B open reasoning model. The entry below has primary-source links and the episode where we covered it live.

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WeiboAI releases VibeThinker-1.5B open reasoning model

Weibo's AI team open-sourced VibeThinker-1.5B, a tiny reasoning model that reportedly outperforms much larger models like DeepSeek R1 on select reasoning benchmarks. Part of a week where small open-weights models from Chinese labs kept punching above their weight.