Why Weibo's tiny VibeThinker-3B has the AI world arguing over benchmarks again

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Author: gmays

Date: 6/18/2026

Article Summary:
A team of researchers at Sina Weibo has developed a language model called VibeThinker-3B that achieves exceptional performance on reasoning tasks with just 3 billion parameters, challenging the conventional wisdom that larger models are always better.