BananaMind released BananaMind 2 Pro on 12 August 2026, saying it nearly matches the performance of SmolLM2, which was trained on 2T tokens. It is the company's first small language model update since the release of SmolLM-135M in 2026.
BananaMind reported a Base Bench score of 1138, measured on the Base Bench benchmark. That compares with a score of 1125 for SmolLM-135M.
BananaMind 2 Pro is built on a consumer GPU and targets small language model training and experimentation. Availability begins on 12 August 2026, initially for desktop PC users.
"It's that training-token count alone doesn't determine how good a small language model will be," said the author. [One sentence paraphrasing what that person went on to say, from the source only].
The announcement follows the release of SmolLM-135M. [One sentence on how the source itself frames the significance, adding no judgement of your own].
BananaMind did not say the model will beat SmolLM2 across the board, and code still needs work. [One sentence on what the source says happens next].
Source: huggingface
