We are now announcing BananaMind 3 ๐! (not ai for those emoji guys)
All models will use BGA (which is almost just NSA) and our BM3X architecture. Its sizes will be: BananaMind 3 Flash Lite, 3M parameters at a context of 8K context. BananaMind 3 Lite, 10M parameters with 16K context. BananaMind 3 Flash, 25M Parameters with 16K context. BananaMind 3 Pro, 50M parameters with 24K context. BananaMind 3 Ultra, 100M parameters with 32K context. And lastly, BananaMind 3 Max with 150M parameters and 64K CONTEXT.
I can assure you BananaMind 3 Max WILL beat GPT X3 or match it, we won't release it otherwise. We hope for a 40+ INTELLIGENCE INDEX!
BananaMind 3 may also be partnered with dot labs.
We will cancel BananaMind 2.1 and BananaMind 2 Ultra.
As of the BETU SLM Leaderboard we may need to release it after October 11, im very busy right now (even though we said We will release BETU leaderboard before Oct 11 ๐)
๐งฑ SLM Tetris Arena: can a small language model play Tetris without ever being trained on it?
I built an arena where tiny decoder-only LMs (50Kโ250M params) play Tetris zero-shot. There is no fine-tuning and no game data. They only use what they picked up from pre-training on text.
How it works: - For every piece, the engine simulates each legal placement and describes the result in plain English ("clears one line, creates no new holes, keeps the stack lowโฆ"). - The model never sees the grid. It reads each description, and the arena compares log P(" good move") with log P(" bad move"). The best-rated placement is played. - Every player gets the same piece sequence, so it's a fair race. - There are two protocols: Guided (the rules are in the prompt) and Blind (no rules, only pre-training knowledge).
Two ways to play: - Match: pick any models (even your own, custom architectures welcome) and watch them play side by side on retro 8-bit boards. - Ranked: press Play and the arena picks up to 4 models at random from a curated pool of 29. Nobody chooses their opponents, so Elo can't be farmed. Matches run on the server and count even if you close the tab.
First results (~225 ranked matches): - gpt2 (124M) leads with 1283 Elo, but SupraNeo-4M (4M) is right behind at 1239. Next come LowOnMind-5M and BananaMind-2.1-Pico (1.5M!). - Model size barely predicts Elo (r โ 0.06). Survival does (r โ 0.9): the models that avoid holes and keep the stack low are the ones that win.
Every ranked match (seed, model commit SHAs, scores, Elo before/after) is logged in a public dataset.