Aurora1.0-150M: a 150M Apache-2.0 model trained on smollm-corpus, benchmarked against GPT-2 Small
Hugging Face / AuroraAI-Research (via r/LocalLLaMA, 128 upvotes)·medium signal
The Hugging Face API confirms AuroraAI-Research/Aurora1.0-150M was created 2026-09-13 with an Apache-2.0 license and the HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus dataset, at 506 downloads when checked. Reported scores are PIQA 62.24%, HellaSwag 32.20%, ARC-Easy 44.91% and ARC-Challenge 25.0%, which the authors position as GPT-2 Small-class. The value is not the capability, it is a fully open small-model training run with a named public corpus, at a size that fits on anything.