@maximelabonne: 1k likes in 5 days, I'm so proud of this little LFM3-1.7B
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Maxime Labonne celebrates reaching 1,000 likes in five days for his post about the LFM3-1.7B small language model.
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1k likes in 5 days, I’m so proud of this little LFM3-1.7B 🥲 https://t.co/0eeXq4SAF8
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