José David Baena – Software Engineer https://josedavidbaena.com Personal website and blog where I document thoughts, ideas, and interests in software engineering, web performance, and open source technologies. en-us josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/tiny-language-models/tiny-language-models-complete-guide Tiny Language Models: How 1.3B Parameters Can Beat 7B on Reasoning https://josedavidbaena.com/blog/tiny-language-models/tiny-language-models-complete-guide Microsoft Phi-1.5 (1.3B) matches models 5× larger on reasoning. TinyLlama hit ~1T tokens for 3 epochs. Data quality beats size—and that changes things. Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT josedab@gmail.com (José David Baena) machine-learningaitiny-llmefficient-modelsedge-computingmobile-ai