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Elie Bakouch

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Prime Intellect
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July 10, 2025
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Elie Bakouch is a researcher at Prime Intellect, previously leading pre-training research at Hugging Face where he was a key architect behind the SmolLM series of small open-source language models. He is known for deep technical breakdowns of frontier model architectures and training recipes.

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